Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

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 do not like the situation but will endure. It is only for awhile.

A daydream is an evasion.

I don't like being consumed by work all the time. I consume myself so much when I do a part that I like to step away from it.

If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

To see more is to become more.

If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.