The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

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

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.