The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.
When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.
The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.
With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.