Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

I finally concluded that all failure was from a wobbling will rather than a wobbling wheel.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

God is action - let us be like God.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

A golden opportunity may turn into silver if you wait too long to take advantage of it.

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

The way you feel is not my problem.

I love the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, which has been restored to the earth in our day. I treasure the teachings of His holy life from newborn infant to resurrected man, Son of God.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

If you are in a meeting and you disagree mentally then you have an obligation to disagree verbally!

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.