What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

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.

You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.

YOU are a signature to be dealt with and inspire, only when you move in to your authenticity.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

When you say if you have faith in America, I think it's the faith in the fact that we're going to end up changing the country, because if we don't, this country's in big trouble.

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read.