Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

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.

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don't want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

They say life is a highway and we all travel our own roads, some good, some bad, yet each is a blessing of its own.

An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

Only the believer obeys — obedience follows faith, the way good fruit comes from a good tree. Only the obedient believe.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end – even if it's momentarily.

I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

My wish is that we design the future of learning. We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.