“Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.”

“When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.”

“Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children, and their children's children.”

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony! Don't just assume your children on their own will somehow get the drift of your beliefs.”

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

“Remember your grandfather's last words, Jonah would tell his children: Life is nothing more than a little why.”