Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.