Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.

I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.

Things we cannot solve, we must survive.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong