Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

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.

~if you aren´t yourself you are nothing~

Wine that maketh glad the heart of man.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

All good novelists have bad memories.

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

The American public will be clear on who's most fit to be president. And that's Hillary Clinton.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.