“Preparation works better than optimism”
“A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.”
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than feel. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful, and optimistic. And we'll change the world.”
“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.”
“In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception of eternal things.”
“People who were personally concerned about a better world, came to Washington, were drawn to it. Even though where we were going was still to be worked out. There was an elan, an optimism . . . an evangelism . . . it was an adventure.”