I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

So much depends upon our willingness to make up our minds, collectively and individually, that present levels of performance are not acceptable, either to ourselves or to the Lord. In saying that, I am not calling for flashy, temporary differences in our performance levels, but a quiet resolve to do a better job, to lengthen our stride.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

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

The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls.

Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world.

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.