Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.

The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.

It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.