"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"