“Everything that I have learned from the revelations and from life convinces me that there is time and to spare for you to carefully prepare for a long life.”

I think there’s something strange about writing a script I’ve written many, many scripts – dozens and dozens of scripts – and every time I start one, I think to myself: ‘why in the world do I think I know how to do this?’

The first gift that Adam and Eve received was agency: ‘Thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee’ (Moses 3:17).

The scriptures speak of ‘the shield of faith wherewith,’ the Lord said, ‘ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked’ (D&C 27:17).

Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Whenever and however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, and your spirit for the rest of your life.

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

Your biggest opponent isn’t the other guy. It’s human nature.

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

The Spirit is a voice that one feels more than hears.

Like most things of great worth, knowledge which is of eternal value comes only through personal prayer and pondering.

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Tolerance is a virtue, but, like all virtues, when exaggerated it transforms itself into a vice.

I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.

Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.

He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

Weigh risk carefully.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.