I leave CNN with the utmost respect love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

But when women are moved and lend help when women who are by nature calm and controlled give encouragement and applause when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love then it is invincible.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Every great man every successful man no matter what the field of endeavor has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.