Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

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.

Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death?

It is difficult to put words to the smell of decomposing human. It is dense and cloying, sweet but not flower-sweet. Halfway between rotting fruit and rotting meat.

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'

Yes, yes I am ill. I go in for the kill. Hoes is my sons, birth control, I am on the pill

When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.