Heaven itself has ordained the right.

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.

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

That is our vocation: to convert the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

All is flux; nothing stays still.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where you saw your own reflection. You scooped me up in your hands.

No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, and it's always best not to do this alone!

The more attention you pay an enemy, the stronger you make him. Be attentive, but don't be paranoiac.

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.