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

The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

Man must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

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.

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

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.

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