"Our senior district president recently asked me, 'What are your greatest impressions since coming here?' I answered, 'Faith and love. Love and faith.' And the way things seem to fall apart on at least a weekly basis before they're somehow put back together."

"In our quest to see God's face, what most matters in mortality is how we face one another--with what patience, tenderness, mercy, and good humor."

"Another great blessing--a mission makes us more aware than otherwise of our personal inadequacies."

"A friend wrote me, 'You've certainly changed.' It's good others can see how the gospel has indeed changed us--how we have repented. As a great assistant to the president put it, 'The best missionary is a repenting missionary.'"

"We all confront, all the time, a choice between two paths. One is higher, with steeper terrain, where you often strain to catch your breath or to reach a handhold. The other lies well below it and tends if anything toward a gradual and easy descent."