It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success.

For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens and as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.