Our forbears came to these shores not for free stuff, but for freedom. The chance to make their own way, create a different life. They came here because they knew that God made them free to make their own way in life, take the risk, do their best and take responsibility for their own lives. They came here because they wanted to serve Him in the way they believed, not as they were told.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

When there throbs in the heart of an individual Latter-day Saint a great and vital testimony of the truth of this work, he will be found doing is duty in the Church.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized. The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become. SERENITY

Your words reveal your wants but your actions reveal your expectations.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.

Walking on water requires feet of faith.

Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, "Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can!