“The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him.”

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”

“The truly free man is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.”

“Tough love is nothing but an excuse and another form of abuse...from the hands that can.”

“Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.”

“The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him”