Studies consistently show that when a school requires its students to wear school uniforms, or even just has a dress code, grades rise and violence declines.

When we accept our own pain we can begin to see past it to the other person's woundedness. We can begin to consider that if we were in their shoes, if we stood inside their story, we might have done to others what they did to us.

I don't think men dress to look attractive; I think they dress to look cool.

I feel like I'm a character already, as in, like, I love dressing up.

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

He moved through life with measured steps, never hurried, though always surrounded by demands and crowds.

When we lead by persuasion rather than command, patience is essential. Leaders rightly cultivate the art of persuasion that allows maximum individual decision making and ownership of a plan. Often, a leader's plan of action must wait for collegial support—ever patient—until the team is ready.

Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.

Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

God was very creative with plants and their seeds. But there's one kind of seed He wants you to spread: the seed of kindness. Being kind means more than just smiling and being nice. It takes courage to be kind to that kid everybody else picks on or that person who's different from you. And it takes strength to be kind when you're tired or when others aren't so kind to you. But when you plant a seed of kindness, it grows . . . and spreads!