"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action"

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

"Action conquers fear"

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

"The ancestor of every action is a thought"

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can"