Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.

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.

To fly deep into the sky, you have to expand your wings by learning new things.

That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away.

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

Christmas is a holy time to rekindle our love for another.

Your brain is all you are, Ms. Enslow, and there's nothing wrong with yours, whatever they might've tried to tell you.

All of heaven we have below.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind

I swear the sparrows called us ten kinds of idiot when we did it.

I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.