If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing]

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.