It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.