It is brutal work, though not more brutal than that which goes onto supply every dinner-table in the country (Life on a Greenland Whaler, an article published in The Strand Magazine in january 1897)

Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.

Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.

The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

Don't waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.