Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

At all times it is better to have a method.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.