He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.

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

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it up.

Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.