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.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Once you learn how to think you can teach yourself anything.

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say what to decide.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

I try to approach making movies in a way that it's about the making of them and not the result of them, if that makes sense.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

There are always fights in a band. People get together for these reunion shows after 20 years, and they play a couple shows and break up again.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.