Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

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.

It is never late, you can start the movement now, the provisions have been made, the price has been paid and the gifts have been packaged. Are you willing to change?

Simply put, mind power is placing a request, or a wish, if you will, and trusting that somehow it will come to be.

Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

Be You! It is so enchanting to see the beauty that radiates from someone freely expressing their uniqueness.

I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.

Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.