Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

While life is meant to test, challenge, and strengthen us, if we are attempting to negotiate the twists and turns and ups and downs of mortality alone, we're doing it all wrong. Mortality is a test, but it is an open book test. We have access not only to the divine text but to Him who authored it.

Without the presence of the Spirit, it is impossible to comprehend our personal mission or to have the reassurance that our course is right.

We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity in motherhood, so be it. For mother is the word that will define a righteous woman made perfect in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom, a woman who has qualified for eternal increase in posterity, wisdom, joy, and influence.

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.

The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.

No amount of time in front of the mirror will make you as attractive as having the Holy Ghost with you.