Be the greatest thing that has ever happened to you.

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.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

If whatever belief you are holding on to isn't driving you forward in life, then it's time to let it go and let the opposite take charge.

You hear me, don't ever let anyone kill the spark inside you. No matter what.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

Many things about American life, that even secular people consider good, have flowed from the presence of a robust, resilient institutional Christianity.