I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

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.

Diversity enriches the soul. It is at the very essence of the life experience

You'll never understand how powerful your choices have been or are until the day you ask yourself why you made them.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

All things are like spring dreams, passing with no trace.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.