Our Quotes

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.