There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.