There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

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 NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...

Tell me half a cup’s worth of story and we’ll call it a night.

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

I was incredibly different as a child from everybody else. But really, I was just who I was. I was born that way.

Always a bridesmaid never a bride my foot!

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.