The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

You only get fulfillment when you work in your land of promise

God is our strongest anchor.

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

People want to psychoanalyze me, but the fact is, I'm not that complicated. I'm pretty straightforward. And I'm not all that self-reflective, because I tend to be a doer.

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.

If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

My dad did teach me a very important lesson about people when he explained to me that everybody around you will have an invisible sign on their head, which says, "Make me feel important."