When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

How we live our religion is far more important than what we may say about our religion.

It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.

What is the definition of a friend? Friends are people who make it easier to live the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.

As we follow [the Savior], He blesses us with gifts, talents, and the strength to do His will, allowing us to go beyond our comfort zones and do things we’ve never before thought possible.

We were not sent by Father in Heaven just to be born. We were sent to endure and return to Him with honor.

Obedience makes us progressively stronger, capable of faithfully enduring tests and trials in the future. Obedience in Gethsemane prepared the Savior to obey and endure to the end on Golgotha.

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

It is lack of contentment that leads to corruption.

The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

It's never been about making money.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.