A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

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.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.

Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

There is nothing, indeed, which God will not do for a man who dares to step out upon what seems to be the mist; though as he puts his foot down he finds a rock beneath him.

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

The green shoots of economic spring are appearing once again.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

I thought it would not hurt to remind you that love is a powerful force in this world, invisible though it seems.