Strange is our situation here upon the earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

God has something only you can do.

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Obstacles cannot crush me Every obstacle yields to stern resolve He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.