It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.

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.

Purpose discovery is a journey and not an event.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

Don't be hasty.

My job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.