Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flash of snowy robe Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Life is like a ladder, the higher you climb, the more expansive your view is.

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening towards active assistance, is simply bad.

Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, but it is not for the Scriptures' sake that we believe in Christ.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Don't be a BEN brother, should have been, would have been, could have been, or might have been.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

What you have said I will consider; what you have to say I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things.

Let 's go hand in hand, not one before another. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.