To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.

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.

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

You want each city to be different, not just see the same shopping malls and stores wherever you go. That's not healthy.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

When I said Iniesta was the world's best, you laughed. Now you can see I'm right.

I think, for me, the main thing is feeling comfortable.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.