The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

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.

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

Good things come to those with no expectations.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

Wear that cologne, shave your face, shave your head, cut your nails, you know...take care of yourself.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

Megaphone in which the wind passes singing.

Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.