Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier