Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
