I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die without publicizing it, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another....

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

What one has to do usually can be done.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.