We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

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 .

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.

No man need stay the way he is.

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