He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

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.

I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.

If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of God write upon it what He pleases. When He writes, I will read; but if I read before He writes, I am very likely to be wrong

The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity.