The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

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

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.

O, do not pray for easy lives.