Love is the world's river of life

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.

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you will be a mile away from him, and you will have his shoes.

People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

You don't have to feel bad to act kindly. Love doesn't stand by, it moves with the speed of clarity.

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

Is there some thought being given to subsidizing the clearing of rainforests in order for some countries to eliminate that production of greenhouse gases?

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

My father always told me, 'Don't waste energy worrying about things you can't control. Spend your energy focusing on solutions'.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.