Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?

Numbers and more numbers...the future of mankind has come down to decimals. I guess you will figure that out, eventually.

the church was an international institution long before globalization.

...the air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)