Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

• purpose
• accomplishment

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

• will

There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; religion without sacrifice; politics without principle; science without humanity; business without ethics.

• culture

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

• laziness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

• forgiveness

A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

• forgiveness
• sin

Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man, and silence is necessary in order to surmount it. A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.

• speech
• lies
• silence

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

• service

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

• justice

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

• principle

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me.

• conscience

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

• speech
• talk
• silence

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

• faith
• worry

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

• simplicity

A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.

• comfort

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.

• love
• optimism
• truth
• tyranny