Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.
It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.