What a testing of character adversity is.

One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

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

Always take a job that is too big for you.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.