Letters of friendship require no study.

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.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

I'm not hiding from anyone. I am who I am, and I'm not perfect.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.