It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

God always works through people.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

How can you tell your wife you are just popping out to play a match and then not come back for five days?

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the ones who want to learn new skills.