My dad was a brilliant man.
She was a wise woman, and her approval
meant I felt I was getting approval from the Lord.
I really did.
My experience was that my mother never said anything
that I didn't take seriously.
I always felt that she sort of knew what was right.
You got the feeling that she was watching over you very much
the same way I feel the Savior does look over us.
And so, if she looked even slightly disapproving--I
remember there was one time I had earned I think 10 cents,
and I decided I'd go to the movies.
I would never get to movies.
They were 10 cents in those days.
And I said to my mother: "I am going to go to a movie.
What do you think?"
And she said, "Oh, if you want to."
And I thought: "Oh, darn.
I can't go now."
Because I could tell she was just--and to this day I wonder
what was in that movie that she was inspired to say, "No,
don't go there."
And she was just like that.
My dad was a brilliant man.
She was a wise woman, and her approval
meant I felt I was getting approval from the Lord.
I really did.
There's people like that--I think my mother,
my wife--people that you sort of knew that they're in touch with
heaven.
So when you try an idea out on them,
their response to you felt you were getting--that was hearing
from Him.