Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

We cannot lead or draw others to Christ unless we stand closer to Him than they do.

Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light our individual candles rather than vying with others to call attention to the enveloping darkness. Our indignation about injustice should lead to illumination, for if it does not, we are only adding to the despair-and the moment of gravest danger is when there is so little light that darkness seems normal!

Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.