To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

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.

Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.

Clear out the past, layout the present and prepare for a much better and brighter future.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, ’68, ’70, would you do things differently?

When I finished my last job, at Global Crossing, it was the first time in God knows how many years that I wasn't in a job. It was probably 32 years or so, and there I was, it was like pow!

I expect us to win. I expect us to get better every day.

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.