We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.