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

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

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.

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

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

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.