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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

When I die and go to heaven, to St. Peter, I will tell: "one more soldier reporting for duty, sir. I've served my time in hell.

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Results alone should be appraised; the way in which these are achieved is of importance only to the maker.

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

We don't have a crisis of leadership in Washington. We have a crisis of followership.

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

The greatness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive. The weakness of Michael Jordan is his competitive drive

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word