God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

I like to give back.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

The word ‚Islam‘ means ‚peace.‘ The word ‚Muslim‘ means ‚one who surrenders to God.‘ But the press makes us seem like haters.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.