My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.

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.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential than before.

People should get married at the end of the road, not the beginning.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.