Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

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.

Another name for destiny is opportunity, once you miss it, your destiny is gone.

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.

Where there is a dirt - we can clean! Yes true but none cleans garbage dumps!!

Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

I mean, I really loved the mix of personal health and, kind of, community health and justice, and I really saw how they were inseparable.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.