The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.
Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.
Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that’s like supposing the same candle could last you all your life.
Religious people are guided in their activities not by the consequences of their actions, but by the consciousness of the destination of their lives.
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.
Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there’s no more than ONE step!
The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie.
But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one’s own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.
In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.
The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.
Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get.
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.
If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.