Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

The many remarkable interpositions of the divine government, in the hours of our deepest distress and darkness, have been too luminous to suffer me to doubt the happy issue of the present contest.

The purpose is Divine; the implementation is human. Our country and its government have made mistakes - human mistakes.

Since the day of creation, the fondest hopes of men and women have been to pass on to their children something better than they themselves enjoyed. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every human breast.