We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything less

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life.

It is a sin of the soul to force young people into opinions ... but it is culpable neglect not to impel young people into experiences.

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

There is more in you than you think.

Your disability is your opportunity.

Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller?

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

I never even had a bachelorhood: I went straight from my parents' home to a marriage.

No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

I was not born to crush my own kind.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

The American people, or at least the ones that I get on the subway with - they know there's a real threat out there. They felt like Iraq lessened our ability to fight that threat.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.