God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

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.

Sometimes, a war saves people.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel, ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

What do dreams know of boundaries?

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.