Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

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.

He spoke again as if he hadn’t just shattered his promise and her security. Her house of glass now lay in a pile of shards.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

You are the biggest threat to your emotional and physical health if you don't set aside time for relaxation, joy, and personal growth.

I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.