Acquaintances are numerous. Friends are few. Enemies many.

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.

Why give up?Why give in?

Have you no sense of decency, sir?

Violence is weakness. True strength comes not through brutality and savagery, but through tenderness, mercy and grace.

His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad.

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.