When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves.

The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.