Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

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.

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.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

Hope is the light through which we see the future.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.

I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there.

No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.