We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

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.

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.

The greatest universe is not somewhere out there, but inside of yourself.

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

The problem with spiritual procrastination is the uncertain time of the deadline.

God will wait as long as it takes for us.

I never wore a single fedora filming L.A. Noire. It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

I feel concerned by what happens in the world.... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved.