Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

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 that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

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It doesn't matter what people thinks of you as long as you know that your heart and head are in the right place.