He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

Why do I have to do the sewin'? 'Cause I'm a girl? Is that it? It ain't fair, I tell ya!

If you truly have character and respecting others is your core value, you respect everybody regardless of who they are, what they believe and how they behave...

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.

Fighters used to be afraid of the Russians, Cubans but then I'd figure them out and figure out how to beat them.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I'm a good giver without expectations.