Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.

When you are through changing, you are through.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations low, taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are, you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.

The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent anybody with a box of tricks to prove its divine authority.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.