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

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

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.

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.

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.

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

At the unconscious level, Americans believe that good people succeed, that success is bestowed upon you by God. Your success demonstrates that God loves you.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

I think I've heard somebody say that I was a well-dressed golfer. I guess that has something to do with the fact that a lot of people who play golf don't dress very well.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in... But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.