You can’t experiment with everything-there isn’t enough time. There are thousands of things that could kill you, but you have only one life to lose. There are thousands of things that could destroy you mentally, morally, physically, spiritually. And not one of them is worth it. And so, profit by what has already been proved, by the trial and error and anguish of others over the ages. If everyone tried to go back to the beginning to repeat all the mistakes that other men have made, we wouldn’t live long enough to learn very much. Part of the precious heritage we have is what has been proved, discovered, and revealed in the past. And so accept it, and go on from here, and learn and repent and improve, and become all you can become, not destroying body and mind, peace and self-respect, but seeking counsel, confiding in loved ones, living by law. Anyone who thinks he doesn’t need counsel and stubbornly decides to go his own way has trouble and tragedy ahead. – Richard L. Evans, “Conference Report,” April 1970, First Day-Morning Meeting, p.16