When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

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.

...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious.

Сase studies are a tremendous device for developing problem solving skills, which are really valuable.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.