We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the
world of spirit.

We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the
world of spirit.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human
being. Each of us owes deepest thanks read more

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human
being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this
light.

Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over all
evil on the raft of read more

Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over all
evil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood to
ashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells
they occupied.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells
they occupied.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,
and about two years after he thinks read more

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,
and about two years after he thinks he does.

Virtue is its own reward.

Virtue is its own reward.

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed read more

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. - 1963.