The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

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.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

You were sizzling, like sausages in a frying pan.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.

Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

You can punch a wall or write a song. Just as painful either way, but you have something to show for it at the end of the day with a song.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.