If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family

— Brigham Young

I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and sisters, and the influence they wield, I look upon them as the mainspring and soul of our being here. It is true that man is first. Father Adam was placed here as king of the earth, to bring it into subjection. But when Mother Eve came she had a splendid influence over him. A great many have thought it was not very good; I think it was excellent" (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 199).).

— Brigham Young

It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.

— Brigham Young

Love the giver more than the gift.

— Brigham Young

My knowledge is, if you will follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament, every man and woman will be put in possession of the Holy Ghost; every person will become a Prophet, Seer, and Revelatory, and an expounder of truth. They will know things that are, that will be, and that have been. They will understand things in heaven, things on the earth, and things under the earth, things of time, and things of eternity, according to their several callings and capacities.

— Brigham Young

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

— Brigham Young

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

— Brigham Young

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

— Brigham Young

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

— Brigham Young

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

— Brigham Young