Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

Destiny always have a choice

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.

A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stores and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer's decision to choose one product or service over another.

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.