Working with kids means lots of ups and downs, but my wife, a nurse, reminds me that on a heart monitor you don't want a straight line.  It's the up and down lines that let you know you're alive.
-Brad Wilcox, "Brad Wilcox: Friend of Education," McKay Today Magazine, Spring 2012, p. 21

"But to what end were we created? We were created with the express purpose and potential of experiencing a fulness of joy. ⁴ Our birthright—and the purpose of our great voyage on this earth—is to seek and experience eternal happiness. One of the ways we find this is by creating things."
-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Happiness, Your Heritage," October 2008 General Conference

"Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty...."
-President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "Happiness, Your Heritage," October 2008 General Conference