Henry Ward Beecher

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.