Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Motivation gets you started, and inspiration keeps you going.

As the years go by, it’s our relationships that will leave us the best memories to celebrate endlessly.

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk