Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify.

If we say that early death is a calamity, disaster, or tragedy, would it not be saying that mortality is preferable to earlier entrance into the spirit world and to eventual salvation and exaltation? If mortality be the perfect state, then death would be a frustration, but the gospel teaches us there is no tragedy in death, but only in sin.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord often with less wisdom than does our youngest child weigh our decisions.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

The meaning of life lies in two major areas: your personal perfection and service to other people. You can serve while you are moving toward perfection, and you can move toward perfection by serving people.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves.

"Self–esteem means that no opinion and no judgment are so vitally critical to your own growth and development as that which you hold of yourself."

It's a pity that we can't forget our troubles the same way we forget our blessings.