A woman’s elegance will charm you for days, her beauty will charm you for weeks, her grace will charm you for years, and her virtue will charm you for a lifetime.

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.

Was mutual need enough to risk trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one?

I think that Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, all those states actually look pretty good for Hillary Clinton.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that's great.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.