Harry Emerson Fosdick

“It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.”

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”

“Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.”

“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.”

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”

“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”

“The secret of a happy life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.”

“He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.”

“The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.”

“To keep a liberty, you must use it.”

“The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.”

“Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of idolatry. You are saying that you are the most important thing in the universe.”