Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven.

It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.