The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

He who hesitates is last.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.