The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

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.

It’s the inward attention that takes you into the depth of the mind.

Trust is like a valuable antique, once gone, it can never be replaced.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.