Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.

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 kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

Things are neither clear nor clean in the world of football right now and many people recognise this reality.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

We Robertses have too many teeth for our mouths.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

Becoming a victim is your choice.

Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.