Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

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 more a man understands the world, the more he falls in love with everyone and everything.

The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

Love doesn't think twice, it comes all at once, or whispers from a distance.

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

I feel energized walking off stage.

America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.

I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.