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

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!

He who cannot learn by others' mistakes is stupid. He who cannot learn by his own errors is a fool.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

Make certain decisions only once . . . We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and then make them ours - without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.

Some of the greatest sermons that have ever been preached were preached by the singing of a song.

Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to the Lord's spirit children and then rearing those children so they will serve the Lord and keep his commandments. ...Motherhood is a holy calling, a sacred dedication for carrying out the Lord's work, a consecration and devotion to the rearing and fostering, the nurturing of body, mind, and spirit of those who kept their first estate and who came to this earth for their second estate to learn and be tested.