It is vital that we serve each other in the kingdom. . . . So often, our acts of service consist of simple encouragement or of giving . . . help with mundane tasks, but what glorious consequences can flow . . . from small but deliberate deeds!

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.

Learn all you can. Growth comes from setting your goals high and reaching for the stars.

Always keep good company. Never waste an hour with anyone who doesn't lift you up and encourage you.

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.

Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.