Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face.

We ought to encourage our children to know their relatives. We need to talk of them, make effort to correspond with them, visit them, join family organizations, etc.

We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.