Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Faith is indispensable, and the world at times does not seem to have quite enough of it. It can and has accomplished what seems to be the impossible. Wars have been started and men and nations lost for the lack of it. Faith starts from the individual and builds men and nations. America was built by and on the faith of our ancestors.