"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."

-Ronald Reagan

“I had spent a lot of time figuring out who I was, shaping myself, creating an identity and I thought that identity was something inside of me that I projected outward and when I was suddenly in a world in which nobody knew me and nobody understood me and all those things, I started to realize that who we are is actually reflected back to us by the people around us, by people who love us.

“You are suddenly in a world where nobody understands why you’re there or what you’re doing or who you are - you suddenly start to ask the same questions.

“So I was basically widdled down to nothing.  I felt like I had no self.  The beauty of that – there’s a lesson there, right?  There’s this lesson – that our connections matter, that how we treat others matters, that it affects their identity directly.  And there’s another lesson there as well.  As I lost myself, I actually found myself broken down to a point where I could learn faster than I’ve ever learned in my life."

-Michael Wesch

The End of Wonder in the Age of Whatever

BYU Speeches

"The key is this:  Meet today's problems with today's strength.  Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow.  You do not have tomorrow's strength yet.  You simply have enough for today."

-Max Lucado

"All our senses feed the brain, and if it diets mainly on cruelty and suffering, how can it remain healthy?  Change that diet, on purpose, train mentally to refocus the mind, and one nourishes the brain."

The Zookeeper's Wife
by Diane Ackerman

"Make knowledge of the Scripture your love . . . Live with them, meditate on them, mark them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries."

-Jerome

"I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

-Winston Churchill

"God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only our availability and if we then prove our dependability, he will then increase our capability."

-Neal A. Maxwell

"Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down.  It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily.  It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings.  It is accepting people as they truly are."

-Thomas S. Monson

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want what is best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

-George MacDonald

"Frequently it is not easy to face up to that which is expected of us.  Many think they cannot do it.  We need a little more faith.  We should know that the Lord will not give us commandments beyond our power to observe.  He will not ask us to do things for which we lack the capacity.  Our problem lies in our fears and in our appetites."

-Gordon B. Hinckley

"There will be noise and people around you most of your waking day.  God hears your silent prayers, but you may have to learn to shut out the distractions because the moment you need the connection with God may not come in quiet times."

-Henry B. Eyring
"Priesthood and Personal Prayer"
Ensign, May 2015

"Who is righteous?  Anyone who is repenting.  No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man.  There is hope for him.  And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting, he is a wicked man.  The difference is which way you are facing.  The man on the top of the stairs facing down is much worse off than the man on the bottom step who is facing up.  The direction we are facing, that is repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad."

Hugh Nibley
Approaching Zion, pg 301-302

"Square your shoulders and you will find that the path you say you can't walk, you walk.  The load you say you can't bear, you bear, and the sorrow you say you can't handle, you handle.  You are stronger than you think you are."

Jeffrey R. Holland
Atlanta Georgia Mission Conference, April 2016