Quotes from Gordon Hinckley

Truth will prevail.

Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other.

Children can be disciplined with love.

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

I am satisfied that every man or woman who goes to the temple in a spirit of sincerity and faith leaves the house of the Lord a better man or woman.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

If there were no immortality there would be no need for temples. There would be no need for eternal marriage if there were no eternity.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.