Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.