Merit rarely goes unrewarded.

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.

With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the others left off.

Without renewal of mind, there is no transformation.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Roses bloom whether you praise them or not.

Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.