A loyal pet is better than a faithless friend.

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.

The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth.

Travel on the right paths for journey of a life time.

I was an accomplished junior tennis player up to around fourteen years old. At fourteen or fifteen I made the decision to venture off to make my life 100% music.

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

We are looking for a way to feel more real, but we do not realize that to feel more real we have to push ourselves further into the unknown.

There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.