A virtuous spouse adds years to your life, a wise one adds decades, but a loving one adds an eternity to your life.

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.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.