Quotes from Ralph W Sockman

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

The hope of free man in a frightened world is the values which man puts ahead of inventions when his back is to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.