Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Deposition of a Disciple, 1976, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 5

"I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships."

Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Notwithstanding My Weakness, 1981, Deseret Book Co. (SLC, Utah), pg. 7

"A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation."