As always at this time of year, I look forward to welcoming each of you to campus and the start of what we anticipate will be a wonderful, productive, and enriching new academic year. We are grateful to have each of you: those who are here for the first time, those who are continuing, and […]
I am grateful to be here this Tuesday when all of us are basking in the afterglow of Saturday’s victory. I congratulate Coach Edwards and his associates. I compliment most warmly the members of the team. I remind the coaches of the words of Casey Stengel, who, after winning the 1958 World Series, said, “I […]
This is the eighth time I have addressed the student body of Brigham Young University at the beginning of the Fall Semester. It is always a humbling experience for me. You have a right to expect a significant and useful message, and that poses a great challenge for the President of the University. In trying […]
Thank you very, very much. The grave will be dedicated at about three o’clock. Of course, not all of you can make it, but. . . . She does not know I’m going to do this, but I need my wife, Pat, to come up here with me. (I told the freshman young men on Friday […]
The dress and grooming standards at BYU are based on standards of modesty and propriety—which are not the same, but which both help you to respect yourself.
The text for this speech is unavailable. Please see our FAQ page for more information. A long excerpt from this speech was published in the New Era in December 1971 and can be found […]
I have been looking forward to today since May 1. Some of that “looking forward” has been with enthusiasm, some of it has been with excitement, and some of it has been building in anxiousness. Someone might need to check and see whether blood is flowing back into my wife’s hand after I was gripping it […]
Agency, the power we have to work out our salvation through choosing between good and evil, is the eternal principle that will be the focus of the time I share with you today. Agency is a divine birthright. Bruce R. McConkie encapsulated the doctrinal perspective of agency in these words:
Inherent in the whole system of […]
Welcome to BYU! For some of you that is welcome back to BYU. For more than ten thousand of you, today is the first time you have heard that amazing greeting, with all of its anticipation, excitement, and wonder. Today marks the beginning of my twenty-second year of hearing that welcome phrase. I heard it […]
The First Presidency has extended to me this wonderful opportunity to conduct and provide remarks at the April 2005 commencement exercises. I am honored and privileged to be with all of you this afternoon.
I bring the love and best wishes of the Church Board of Education and the Brigham Young University Board of Trustees. […]
I am humbled and thankful to be among so many friends today and to see so many of my current and former students. Thank you for this opportunity, President Worthen.
I grew up on a large cattle ranch, first near Eureka, Nevada, and later in Kanosh, Utah. I would start the days very early by catching and […]
