Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

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.

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

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.