Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

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.

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

I mean emotionally, women are like Bruce Lee and we’re like Donald Duck. An’ I think a lotta guys are afraid of that.

God made the country and man made the town.

I do not pick the wrong guys. They pick me.

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

Every Observer writer wants to be a novelist.

There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.

If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.