The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.

If you can't win, make sure you don't lose.

I got to play Santa, too. It's really important to play Santa, you know.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.

Free enterprise is the sure and so far the only known way of constantly improving the well-being of mankind.