Gordon B. Hinckley

With all my heart, I plead with the Latter-day Saints to live honestly with the Lord in the payment of tithes and offerings. I plead with youth to establish this habit while you are still young and to resolve to continue with it all the days of your lives. ”

Let every mother realize that she has no greater blessing than the children who have come to her as a gift from the Almighty; that she has no greater mission than to rear them in light and truth, in understanding and love. ”

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior. ”

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire. ”

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead. ”

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred. ”

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. ”

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith. ”

I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes. ”

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions. ”