Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

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.

The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard!

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all