True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

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 cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.

In silence alone does a man's truth bind itself together and strike root.

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Who were you before you put yourself last.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.