Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might gain by fearing to attempt.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.

I'm an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.