Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

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.

I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.

May a man live well-, and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him.

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

True fulfillment in life doesnt come from what we get, it comes from what we give

I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.