I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
When you labor for your brother you always get the chief reward yourself.
I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.
Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two. . . . There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.
A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.
We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for them; and it is well and proper that we should moum for them and shed tears for the loss, for it is our loss; but it is their gain, for it is in the march of progress, advancement and development. It will be all right when our time comes, when we have finished our work and accomplished what the Lord required of us.
There is nothing more dangerous than idleness. . . In labor there is salvation; in labor there is safety.
Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.
For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense fear, more intense than I had ever experienced before. Life seemed meaningless, barren, hostile. It became so unbearable that suddenly the thought came into my mind, I cannot live with myself any longer.
Tell me when you want to pick it up again. " "Tell me when Satan starts a snowball fight. " "I'll do that. Lunch?
there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective. . . the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.