Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success.

Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior.

All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.