Words That Changed the World

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

No candid observer will deny that whatever of good there may be in our American civilization is the product of Christianity.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.