My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.

I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your children, your grandchildren, and others, on through the generations. Each of us is important to those who are near and dear to us and as our posterity reads of our life's experiences, they, too, will come to know and love us. And in that glorious day when our families are together in the eternities, we will already be acquainted.

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

Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.