A church debt is the devil's salary.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can change your income, you can change anything.

Every film you do, you always look at it and you think, "I could do better," but I'm never going to tell people what I could do better. I think it's up to them to make up their own mind.

[Memory] visits when it is hungry, not when you are.

Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.

Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.