Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

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.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Great life, great deeds.Great deeds, great blessings.

Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.

High tech needs to be complemented by high touch.

Love and romance are things worth waiting for.

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

The use of the internet, the use of Twitter, the way protest movements developed...This is a different world.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.