The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

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 names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.