Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

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.

Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

Sacred heart begets happiness.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed.

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger.

I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.