Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as Gods children. – Phillips Brooks
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end. – Phillips Brooks
Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. – Phillips Brooks
As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as one of the faithful, one of those people who can say, Well, look, somethings going to happen! Lets just keep trying. Lets not give up. – Tom Hanks