Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

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.

So it's over I guess they are in love or do they just think it huh.

Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

You can walk into your room after walking out through the door, but you cannot come out of your grave after being buried into the soil.

I am a star because I have always felt so alienated and I project this feeling to others.

I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

I was created in love. For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.