Choose a field that will supply sufficient remuneration to provide adequately for your companion and your children. I bear testimony that these criteria are very important in choosing your life's work.

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth.

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.