There is no convenient Messiah. Salvation comes only through discipline and sacrifice.

Believe in miracles. I have seen so many. They came when every indication would say that Hope was lost. Hope is never lost!

Never check your religion at the door. Not ever.

A life without problems or limitations or challenges--life without "opposition in all things," as Lehi phrased it (2 Nephi 2:11)--would paradoxically but in very fact be less rewarding and less ennobling than one which confronts--even frequently confronts--difficulty and disappointment and sorrow.

We must not pull away from our children. We must keep trying, keep reaching, keep praying, keep listening. We must keep them within the clasp of our arms.

However many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made, ... you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love.

No eternal learning can take place without that quickening of the Spirit from heaven.