Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose beethoven's fifth.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The devil loves ‘curing’ a small fault by giving you a great one.

“You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

`When asked,"How do you write ?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time.'

“If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?”

"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."