Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with ‘Thy will be done’ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

Life moves all too fast. When you feel weak, discouraged, depressed, or afraid, open the Book of Mormon and read.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

Temple. One other word is equal in importance to a Latter-day Saint. Home. Put the words holy temple and home together, and you have described the house of the Lord!

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide.