Boyd K. Packer

Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.

Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with __hy will be done_ (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

The study of doctrine and the teaching of doctrine will change behavior more than the study of behavior will change behavior.

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant everything, including instant solutions to our problems. . .It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.