Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. 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.

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.