We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.

You can pray until you faint, but if you don’t get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Despair is a sin. I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are.