We have never found, and I think we never shall find, an adequate substitute for the situation in which two wholesome young men meet with a family, reason with them, teach them, testify to them, and pray with them. We shall always need missionaries.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

... 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!

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.