A jade curtain of willow fronds parts world of green earth from that of blue pond A grey curtain of morning mist separates turquoise waters from blue sky A more slender veil is at the portal hiding the paradise of the immortal.

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.

Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933 How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.

A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul. 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag, When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much. -Daphine Rose Kingma.

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

There is a technical meteorological term for a sunny, warm day which follows two rainy days. It's called a "Monday.".

Imitation is suicide.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

I could live a week on one good compliment.

The world is composed of givers and takers..the takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.