A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.

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 preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

We must realize that even though the sacred text of the scriptures could never be improved or changed, flesh certainly can!

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.