In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

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.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Not all celebrities are dunces.

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game

Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.