He who despises a poor man’s wisdom has turned away great riches.

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 goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

I've learned to be comforted in the dark spot of my mind.

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

I GREW UP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A FRIEND OR 2 THAT TALKED WITH THE SOOUTHERN ACCENT.

Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.

I did not oppose unification, I knew unification would have to come, but not in the form in which it did come. There were two ways of doing it and they took it the radical way, the forceful way.