Richard L. Evans
“Successful people need counsel. Unsuccessful people need counsel. The hasty impulse, the know-it-all attitude, the pride that keeps us from asking—these are the dangerous approaches to any problem from the youngest in years to the oldest of age, there is no one who can be always sure he is right, no one who has learned so much of life that he doesn’t need the counsel of others and a prayerful approach to all problems, ’Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings,’ said Alma, ’and he will direct thee for good…’ (Alma 37:37). There is safety in counsel, no safety without it. They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped.” (Conference Report, Apr. 1968, p. 86 as taken from Latter-day Commentary on the Book of Mormon compiled by K. Douglas Bassett, p. 325)