Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

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.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

The joy of life is variety the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

I have thought of relocating, somewhere where I'd be more appreciated. California, perhaps. I could teach earthquake preparedness.