Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.

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.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

This women's orchestra made a demure picture in their muted dove grays, alright, but they played like they were gowned in scarlet and gold.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal.

Make friendship a fine art.

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.