Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

Anxiety can be replaced only by the freedom whose harsh requirements are its cause. Being free requires us to release the brakes that anxiety represents in order to accept and appropriate our proper spiritual fulfillment or perhaps even to recognize, if that is what we in the end believe, that no such prospect is in store.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .

The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal, and this superiority distinguishes him in quite another way than does his erect walk, for it indicates infinite erectness or sublimity, that he is spirit.8 The possibility of this sickness is man's superiority over the animal; to be aware of this sickness is the Christian's superiority over the natural man; to be cured of this sickness is the Christian's

What Christendom needs at every moment is someone who expresses Christianity uncalculatingly or with absolute recklessness.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.