My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

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.

It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.

Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume.

I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

I'm psyched about what I can contribute that can be meaningful to myself and to others.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.