Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

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 true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

Self belief, Wise choice and Karma are the three main ingredients of Winners.

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

Iran is the only country in the world that's threatening to erase another country from the map as part of a collective genocide.