Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.

Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.