Love is the wine of existence.

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.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.

I should kill you, ” Kallan whispered, “and watch your blood run with the cries of my people. If I kill you, all my troubles end. And I go home to Lorlenalin, my father’s death avenged.

Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses.

Medicine: "Your money and your life!

Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to the race.

I just want to do the least work in the least time and make the most money.

We don't make the investments we need to make, the sector fails to innovate, and then we conclude that it can't innovate.