Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

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.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.

Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.

I like having the two sports in my life. It is nice to have a change. They are both intense sports, but the balance I have is working for me at the moment and I find they compliment one another.

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.

We can be lonely together

I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.

I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.