What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

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.

Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.

I do agree you can't just make movies three hours long for no apparent reason. For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

Definitely they [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] argued, especially in the period we've just been talking about, the middle 1930's. They were like any other couple.

Help another and you will be the one who benefits most

The battles, the fights, the bruises, the bites. That's the way true love grows.

Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!