Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

Value is what you trade to get money. The more valuable you are the more money you attract.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.

The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift.

I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.