Count your summers, not your winters.

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.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Hating is a full time job with no benefits, only an acquired type can do it. I thank God I didnt meet the qualifications.

Sanctimony is the most inexpensive form of morality. It costs us nothing to make much of small matters in others.

Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today, but this is just about what excites me.