Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

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.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Liberal papers are not necessarily liberal.

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

I would love to make a real jazz album someday because I never have. But that's something I'm not in a rush to do.

Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.