I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Optimism is the foundation of courage.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

Cherish yesterday. dream tomorrow, live like crazy today!!

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners.

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

Christians are not powerless. We have the mighty power of God available through God the Holy Spirit, even in this world.

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

We came to this earth to labour and work for increase, which would lead to possession.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

Continue to learn with humility, not hubris. Hubris is boring.

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.