If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

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.

Praying is a persuasive act.

First opportunity is the golden opportunity.

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.

Art does not imitate, but interpret.

I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

Donald Trump has a compulsion to counterattack and is very pugnacious.

I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

What you can't enforce, do not command.