Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

I know the celestial criteria measure service, not status; the use of our talents, not the relative size of our talent inventories. I know that Church membership is not passive security but continuing opportunity.

Power is most safe with those who are not in love with it!

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.