As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

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.

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.

Faith in yourself matters.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.