The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Nature gives man corn but he must grind it; God gives man a will but he must make the right choices.

The world would hate His followers, not because of evil in their lives, but precisely because of the absence of evil or rather their goodness. Goodness does not cause hatred, but it gives occasion for hatred to manifest itself. The holier and purer a life, the more it would attract malignity and hate. Mediocrity alone survives.

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.