Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever
without eror, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and
fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to read more

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for
failure-which is: Try to please everybody.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not read more

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

What millions died that Caesar might be great?

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, read more

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing
would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing
would be impossible to us upon the earth.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he read more

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.