If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.

There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.

Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence.