To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

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.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests

his shirt had more wrinkles than a smoker's lips

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on earth.

I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.