To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

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.

Your inner light is your inner power.

Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege.

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

True self-love and social are the same.

In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.

Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

I can play anywhere on the park. Im a bit like that in bed, too