Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

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

“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.”

“Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“To keep a liberty, you must use it.”

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