My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils.

Our personal intelligence is everlasting and divine.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

If you're not critical about your history, that can be a problem because there are religious leaders, politicians and all kinds of powerful people who can take advantage of a population that isn't really thinking.

Our message to leaders from every continent was simple: California has succeeded on climate and clean energy because we've emphasized local, human values and built a coalition that includes community and environmental leaders, working families, and communities of color - as well as unions and progressive business.

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.