Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

I don't care about the Constitution

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.