"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!"

"Humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball."

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice."