We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

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.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

Creativity is a gift of the Creator to His creation

What I speak and express is what, that does not even belong to me.

Sometimes the decision is placed in your hands and you just have to go with it, right or wrong, according to what you think is best.

Shared laughter is love made audible.

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.