THOUGHTS ON THOUGHTS
 

President Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference, October 1988:

        "I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and pictures from the Book of Mormon."

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President Gordon B. Hinckley:

        "The older I grow, the more I enjoy the words of thoughtful writers, ancient and modern, and the savoring of that which they have written."

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President Ezra Taft Benson:

        "It is our privilege to store our memories with good and great thoughts and bring them out...of our minds at will."

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President Gordon B. Hinckley:

        "(We) need to grow constantly, to stretch the mind, to enlarge understanding, to be nurtured by the thoughts of great men and women of all ages."

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Ethna R. Reid, director of the Examplary Center for Reading Instruction and of the Reid School:

        "Identify heroes and heroines:  Bring into the home pictures and words of famous people of character.  Think great thoughts.  Consider having a hero of the week to feature.  Also remember heroic people that the children have contact with on a regular basis that they can look up to."

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        “The short sayings of wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold and the sparks of diamonds.”

Tillotson

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 “Start every day with an inspiring thought.”

Anonymous

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 "A drop of ink may make a million think."    

Byron

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 “Great thoughts left unread are like fruitful seeds left unplanted.”

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Robert H. Schuller