Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

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.

Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts.

The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

Did I mention really, really jealous.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

The terror created by weaponry has never stopped men from employing them.

If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.

[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.