As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.