A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

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.

Let the warning of the tyrants of the past be recognized for it shall be the same one ringing out when the tyrants of the present are unleashed.

The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

There is ripe fruit over your head.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

Our [former] governor [Pat McCrory] was supposed to be a moderate, but he found himself beholden to people who have much more draconian ideas. I think he assumed this stuff flew under the radar.

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.