Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

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.

A lot depends on the small things

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

I just like to keep working and being able to pay my bills.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

Sitting on a beach or walking through nature makes me come alive always.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.