Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.