The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

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 world was hers for the reading.

To help all created things that is the measure of our responsibility to be helped by all that is the measure of our hope.

I don't want to do something where I play a kid in a school. And I don't understand these spoof movies.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.

Let's see, for breakfast Rickey will have bacon and eggs, and grits if I can get 'em.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.