Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

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.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either, ” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

The story of the tree is written on every leaf.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

Get up and get moving. Follow me!

I like cold. I really like to go to cold towns. I love gray. I love winter.

Every time I "get with the program"... somebody changes the channel.