The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

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.

In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and transgressions are finally laid bare.

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.

If my golf game was a prize fight, they'd stop it.

It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.

Told me my tape taught them to swear. What about the make-up you allow your 12 year old daughter to wear?

The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

I try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.

I'm okay with multinational marriage, foreigners are also alright. Mixed blood babies are so pretty.

We're always given the message that our potential is so limited, which is so sad. Actually, our potential is infinite.