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Nevertheless the person in charge never seems to look the impossibility in the face.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

The student’s goal is Poise! Poise is Power.

Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.

You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart

I have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it.

I have learned already in this office that the difficult decisions always come to this desk.

Fully impressed with the gravity of the duties that confront me and mindful of my weakness, I should be appalled if it were my lot to bear unaided the responsibilities which await me.

In this time of doubt, they look to the United States as never before for good will, strength, and wise leadership.

It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

Our life is frittered away by detail

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.

As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths in the heart of man which the storms of sin and sorrow can never disturb.

Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.

Standing here in the deep, brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless, as if the work of creation were done.

Nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the frailest, most gentle and peaceful things.

Only spread a fern frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

Beauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.