Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.

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.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

The world makes you something that you’re not - but you know inside what you are.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Procrastination is a deadly weapon of human progress.

You do more for yourself when you forget yourself.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.