A blunt arrow in the air has greater potential to strike than a sharp one in a quiver.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way.

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, and no wrath is an idol.