There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This great possibility was enunciated by the Prophet Joseph Smith in the King Follet sermon. It is this grand and incomparable concept: As God now is, man may become!

The course of our lives is not determined by great, awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run.

I am satisfied that happiness in marriage is not so much a matter of romance as it is an anxious concern for the comfort and well-being of one's companion. Any man who will make his wife's comfort his first concern will stay in love with her throughout their lives and through the eternity yet to come

It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.

If you do not choose the kingdom of God, it does not matter what you choose instead.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.