I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.

I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.