Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.

You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.

I'm not approachable by someone who says, "Let's try some drugs," or something like that. I'm absolutely close-minded about that kind of thing. But I'm wide open to anyone who says, "I've been wondering why we're here and where we're going, and I've got a few answers, but I wondered if anything ever happened to you that suggests..." Then they have me, and I become a chatterbox and can just talk away literally for days.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.