Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

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.

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.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Destroy the one who thinks you can be destroyed. You’re invincible. Nothing destroys you. Nothing.

All things are possible to him who believes.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

School didn't work for me. I hated it.

I had a lot of enthusiasms that were very contradictory, I was never very doctrinaire in the type of design I wanted to do.

I think if I was not in love, I would probably let myself go faster. Love gives me the vanity to continue.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.