Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

We all have done something unethical.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I’m tender on the inside.

Choose people who lift you up.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

It is always your next move.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.