Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.

The most effective way to share the gospel is to live it. When we live like disciples of Christ should live, when we aren't just good but happy to be good, others will be drawn to us.

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

On those days when we're not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we're actually saying is, "Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today." Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.