Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Harry Emerson FosdickFriends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.
Harry Emerson FosdickI hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
Harry Emerson FosdickEvery year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.
Harry Emerson FosdickThe most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick