The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

Arrogance is the last thing to die

Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.

I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

When I think about the stuff I turned down it's kind of insane.

For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.