Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

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.

New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.

Chill out with Shiver and Fears

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.