I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.

In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

President Heber J. Grant often quoted the following statement, which is sometimes attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do-not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased.'

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments of my life that I have learned to sing.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.