Be truthful.Be presentable.Be tactical.Be profitable.

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.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I’d be terminal.

The elderly become invisible sooner than we would hope.

The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by.

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

When Putin says good things and when we have a possibility of having a good relationship with Russia.

One of our troubles is that we try to make municipalities that are totally different from each other all act as if they were the same kind of creature, with the same kinds of possibilities.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.