Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.

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.

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

I think great teachers, which coaches are, are the ones that you hear.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.

Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.

I never watched wrestling, I was never a fan of wrestling really.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.