"Don't let fears of what could go wrong stand in the way of what could go right."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."