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

What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. You must never give up!

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

There's no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

The ultimate effort of everything in the Church is to the end that a father and a mother and their children can be happy at home. If they are happy at home, they are spiritually prepared for whatever should be ahead of them in the world.

There are spiritual and physical laws to obey if we are to be happy.