Harry Emerson Fosdick

Always take a job that is too big for you.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

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

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

I would rather live in a world where life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.