The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

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 secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

You can't be in my world...You live in this one.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

I love the idea of hitchhiking into the city. It was bizarre.

I'm not just another bimbo.

Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.