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

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.

Trust me, I'm a really nice guy.

Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.

I'd rather be a born-once hog than a born-again Christian any day.

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.