Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught..

War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst..

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it..

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their plac….

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be..

God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things..

Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success..

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he….

Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory..

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier.

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer..

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis..

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person..

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship….

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships thems….

Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life..

One of the strange phenomena of the last century is the spectacle of religion dropping the appeal of fear while other human interests have picked it ….

We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "….

One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living..

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities..