There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

Learn to be good for something.

Angels are those beings who have been on an earth like this, and have passed through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. They have kept their first estate far enough to preserve themselves in the Priesthood. They did not so violate the law of the Priesthood and condemn themselves to the sin against the Holy Ghost as to be finally lost. They are not crowned with the celestial ones. They are persons who have lived upon an earth, but did not magnify the Priesthood in that high degree that many others have done who have become Gods, even the sons of God.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

I expect to see the day when the Elders of Israel will protect and sustain civil and religious liberty and every Constitutional right bequeathed to us by our fathers, and spread these rights abroad in connection with the Gospel for the salvation of all nations. I shall see this whether I live or die.