It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.

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.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

Running away from love is never any good at all, to our sort. It only deepens the feeling, and it’s better to stay and wear it down.

Crime like virtue has its degrees.

I don't quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more.

Kenny Dalglish would be my first choice for Liverpool's best ever player because he was a great player with a lot of qualities.

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

People of difference are always held to different standards.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.