Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

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.

The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her invisible?

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

And when in doubt, be extreme.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.