Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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

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

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

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.