It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

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.

With courage, always go where you fear to go.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.