To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

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.

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

I am a dead man alive.

I cannot love, I want to be aloneI will not love, I want to be alone

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

Either all days are holy or none are.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.