System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

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.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.

You know, party every day until 6 a.m. and then sleep during the day.

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water.