Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.