A pretty heart is more valuable than a pretty face.

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.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”~The Grimoire

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.

Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.