An open heart leaves a breach for someone to pour love into it.

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.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is a temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

Jesus Christ knows the worst about you. Nonetheless, He is the one who loves you the most.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

Riches do not make one rich but busy.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered. “Courage, Ta­tiana.