We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.
Your direction is more important than your speed.
Enjoy life while it is happening.
This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.
He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.
Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself – things could always be worse and they are for someone else!
What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn’t do once today!
There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished – and all of us will some day meet it face to face.
It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.
Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.
Live so as to have a quiet conscience.
There must be a priority of values in all our lives.
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
Someone has to do everything that is done.
There’s no pillow quite so soft as a father’s strong shoulder.
Any man who can’t control his thoughts can’t control his actions, and any man who can’t control his actions isn’t safe in society.
There is no loneliness so great, so absolute, so utterly complete, as the loneliness of a man who cannot call upon his God.