Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.

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.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

She stared at Raven in a long second of shocked silence, before sagging to the floor.

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

Now, once again, 2 students left. But of course they're a part of you now.

As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.