It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started.... My health is very good.

The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

The Boy and the Filberts A boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell-- Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave,-- Then some leap'd overboard with fearful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave.

Unwavering obedience to the true principals we learn will assure us spiritual survival.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen: Aid it, hopes of honest men!

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society . . .

I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.

Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.

No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are.

I was never less alone than when by myself.