Joseph B. Wirthlin

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is not a religion of mourning and gloom.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.