There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

to everything there is an end - except fear.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled