Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

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.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

It was genuinely horrible. I stopped using Twitter for a while because I got so much s**t about being anorexic. And Im not.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

To be an entrepreneur, it just takes a lot of persistence, dedication, and drive. No matter what happens, you have to be wiling to get back up and try again.

I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.