Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Fair Greece! and relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!

He's a few balloons short of a parade.

It is our belief that if people are set free to express themselves to the fullest, their accomplishments will be far beyond their dreams, and they will not only contribute to the growth of the company, but will also be more useful citizens and contribute to the society at large.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise, bureaucrats.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

The Christian Church does not want and does not need members because of a job it has to do. The Christian Church has a secret at her heart and she wants to share it. Whenever one, by repentance and forgiveness, enters this community of grace, he discovers life's end, and he too will be constrained to let this life flow out in appropriate channels. Thrilling and costly projects will come into existence, but not as ends in themselves, and the group will not become a means to [such ends]. The group will never forget that one of its primary functions is to up build the members in love.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.