It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian.

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.