Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each man's strength to help all the others perform. The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things.
If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing.
The Way is not a religion: Christianity is the end of religion. 'Religion' means here the division between sacred and secular concerns, other-worldliness, man's reaching toward God in a way which projects his own thoughts.
There is the voice that everybody hears. . . saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to. " And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.