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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy – the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.