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

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.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

It almost doesn’t matter what is real or unreal. It really matters what we choose to believe.

If one lied, or put you down, don't mourn don't grieve, for why do you care, you don't want to be friends with the mean.

To remember nothing, " they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn't execute properly.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.

its fun to do the unexpected.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.