90% of all failures in life are those who have the habit of making excuses.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

You cannot leave your goodness behind without stumbling into greatness

Once someone asked me three words that best describe me and I said 'Loud, Louder, and Loudest.'

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!