Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

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 assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

Sadly, our society still perpetuates the false ideal that a real man should be all masculine, and a real woman all feminine. Neither is possible, nor desirable.

The diversity of our connections outside our particular tribe is directly proportionate to our ability to listen, learn and love.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

All the fun is in how you say a thing.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.

Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing.