Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the 'Will Rogers' of the Church, and told the congregation that he was a great humorist. When he got up he said, 'You know, I think the Lord himself likes a joke. If he didn't, he wouldn't have made some of you folks!

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two

Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

We are not endeavoring to get ahead of others, but to surpass ourselves.