I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.