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" I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort. "

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" Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. "

" I've been blessed so abundantly that I can never get over it. I just feel so richly blessed that I want to extend that to others wherever I can. "

" It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do. "

" Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends. "

" I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that. "

" I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context. "

" I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her. "

" In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference. "

" Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have. "

" Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. "

" You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure. "

" Oh, I don't think religion has failed. It's man who has failed. Christ hasn't failed. The Gospel hasn't failed. The teachings of God have not failed. "

" There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love. "

" Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work. "

" My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us. "

" Teach your daughters to walk in virtue. "

" Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. "

" The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. "

" The whole essence of the Christian religion is based on the atonement of Christ, his death and his resurrection. "

" Every convert is a son or daughter of God. "

" Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal. "

" I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions. "

" I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. "

" There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics. "

" Today is a part of eternity. "

" The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way. "

" I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally. "

" Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day. "