The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Everyone has a given a chance to live life to the fullest, every moment and memories you make is your choice.

You can follow the religions where God is small, or you can follow the religions where God is all.

I set out to be the best and I am.

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own.

I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.