“The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.”

Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

He took his misfortune like a man – he blamed it on his wife.

My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift — he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

If you want your wife to listen to you, talk to another woman.

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

My daughter hasn’t seen me with anybody in five years. I’m very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it’s real. I don’t want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

I’ve forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I’m too young.

My daughter sent me on a mission to get as many autographs as possible.

We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.

As I now often tell my daughter Lila, no matter what stage of life you’re in, when you want something – no matter how impossible it seems – you need to fight for it. When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you’ve ever fought before.

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to ‘fertilizer’ instead of to ‘manure’:] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

my belonging to relief society has renewed, strengthened, and committed me to be a better wife and mother and daughter of God. my heart has been enlarged with gospel understanding and with love of the Savior and what He’s done for me. so to you, dear sisters.