God is always the first one there when we fall, but most of us don’t look up.

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.

You are ... who you are... you can't change that.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.