Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

I urge our people everywhere, with all of the persuasiveness of which I am capable, to live worthy to hold a temple recommend, to secure one and regard it as a precious asset, and to make a greater effort to go to the House of the Lord and partake of the spirit and the blessings to be had therein.

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve.

To save a girl is to save generations!

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.