An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.

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.

Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Moving ourselves to the background and others to the foreground is evidence that the (spiritual) search is achieving its purpose.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.

Love is the glue that holds the world together.