“I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.”

“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”

“It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all.”

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.”

“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”