"Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

"Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not."

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense."

"Metaphors are the weapons of cowards."

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."

"It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People."

"A good example is like a bell that calls many to church."

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."

"It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect."

"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal."