A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often motivated by a desire to rationalize one's own shortcomings and to justify termination of sacred marriage covenants.

I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.