If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything.

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 is action that creates motivation.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

I've been in crime for a long time and I know that the actual move isn't the actual crime: the crime continues [afterwards].

I didn't push any of my kids into golf, and they played golf because they wanted to.

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

I'm a failed pop star. I always sneak a song into everything I do.

Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.