When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

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.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

I'm not a trust-fund type.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.

The price of dishonesty is self-destruction.

A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

You better hope that I never see you walking down the street while I’m driving my car! (Tory)

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.