Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.

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.

The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking

I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

Things are always at their best in their beginning.

We haven't yet got eyes that can gaze into all the splendour that God has created, but we shall get them one day; and that will be the finest fairy tale of all, for we shall be in it ourselves.

If he full-out flexed, I would probably faint, or jump off the building.

A career is a job that has gone on too long.

That's all our team is about. If we stop people, we're the most athletic team in this whole tournament and we can get out and get easy buckets.

If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.

There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.