Character is built little by little, over days, weeks, months, and years, with thousands of small and seemingly insignificant acts of discipline.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

If you don't have time to pray and read the scriptures, you are busier than God ever intended you to be.

Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the very spirit they claim to instill.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

More people have access to education today than ever before. But I cannot help but feel that the modern educational experience is not preparing us adequately to attend the rich banquet of life. Certainly the young people of today have mastered the use of technology and are capable of solving complex scientific and mathematical problems, but who and what do these serve if they cannot think for themselves? If they have no understanding of the meaning and purpose of their own lives? If they do not know who they are as individuals?

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.