No Account Anyway

Someone recently said some terrible things about me and my wife Kari in a report to the local court. I was very angry and wanted to retaliate until I remembered a story told by President Gordon B. Hinckley in a conference talk:

Once a man who had been slandered by a newspaper came to Edward Everett asking what to do about it. Said Everett, “Do nothing! Half the people who bought the paper never saw the article. Half of those who saw it, did not read it. Half of those who read it, did not understand it. Half of those who understood it, did not believe it. Half of those who believed it are of no account anyway” (“Sunny Side of the Street,” Nov. 1989; )

So I will let these silly little people say what they want and we will move forward with dignity.