Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

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.

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.

Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?

The mind can't take you where your heart longs to go.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.

Looking back - I did have a lot of success and a lot of great opportunities earlier in my career.