A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.

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.

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

To oblige people often costs little and helps much.

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world.

Everything is optional. Somethings are illegal. And some things are really gross.

Two remarkable men -- one young, one old -- fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.

The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.