You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.