Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

A community or a country is poor or rich, depending upon who lives on the waterfronts - the poor or the rich!

This woman could make a saint sin.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.