An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.

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.

The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice

You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear>

It's over and can't be helped and that's one consolation as they always say in Turkey when they cut the wrong man's head off.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

Connecting today is a dialogue.

Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."