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No, we don't own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.
Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.
It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.
Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.
Whether full-time missionaries or members, we should all be good examples of the believers in Jesus Christ.
Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.
Avoid secret's! Be open about which you are. It takes too much energy to hide in the closet about any issue.
I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
The rule I use is, If it doesn't come out of the ground looking the way it looks when you eat it, be careful.
I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.
Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.
You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.
Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.
Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.
For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
While we are free to choose, once we have made those choices, we are tied to the consequences of those choices.
Physical conditioning from regular exercise is important. And we can do so much more to keep our bodies strong.
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.
Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.
The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
That's how most men connect - in bed. The physical connection is important because it reinforces the emotional one.
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.
It's a big issue for me - feeling like I should be helping every person who asks for something or who has a problem.
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly.
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us.
How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.