You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

We’ve got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we can’t smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

There is too much of criticism and faultfinding with anger and raised voices.

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.

Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure

There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.