Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.