My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.

You know yourselves how slippery is the path of youth—a path on which I have myself fallen, and which you are now traversing not without fear.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

There are a few of us who have latched on to this silly idea that we can change the world. We will develop the power to ignore what is popular and do what is right. One person can attain the power to lead hundreds of thousands of people to the promised land of their dreams.

You will become a lighthouse of personal growth and power, and by your example and leadership, you will prevent many a worthy man from crashing his life upon the rocks of mediocrity.

If you want to become a person that others want to be around, you must always hold your life to the very highest standard.

But I do believe that the more sand that has fallen from the hourglass of our lives, the clearer we should be able to see through it.