The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

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 greatest adventure is soul seeking.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe, ' three times.

Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.