Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity.

To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than intellect . . . . We are men of God first, men of letters second, men of science third, and noted men fourth, men of rectitude rather than academic competence. . . . Our academic training must be as impeccable as our lives.

There isn't anything else more important than taking the gospel to the world.

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.

Let us remember, too, that greatness is not always a matter of the scale of one’s life, but of the quality of one’s life. True greatness is not always tied to the scope of our tasks, but to the quality of how we carry out our tasks whatever they are. In that attitude, let us give our time, ourselves, and our talents to the things that really matter now, things which will still matter a thousand years from now.

Peace, sweet peace finally comes to men when they humbly yield to the gentle pressure of the Spirit.