Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

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

Anger is self-immolation.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.