An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

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.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

Fundamentalism is dictatorship of the mind

Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.