Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

We need women who are devoted to shepherding God's children along the covenant path toward exaltation; women who know how to receive personal revelation, who understand the power and peace of the temple endowment; women who know how to call upon the powers of heaven to protect and strengthen children and families; women who teach fearlessly.

Prior to my call to the Twelve, I served as a medical doctor and surgeon.

As a medical doctor and cardiac surgeon, I had the responsibility of performing open-heart surgery on President Spencer W. Kimball in 1972, when he was Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

All missionaries, younger and older, serve with the sole hope of making life better for other people.

When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

I couldn't beat people with my strength; I don't have a hard shot; I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God's eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

In today's world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they're cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I'm a human being. I've got opinions, I'm not always right, I'm not always on time, I don't always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'