Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155 There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means that exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree, of our natural powers, was not given to us to be burnt or blighted, but to be grafted on.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.

He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us light.

You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Let it alone. Let it pass by.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

When kings are building, draymen have something to do.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.