Sometimes the best people... have the worst experiences... because they are ready to learn

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.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!