If you sing to one person as if you’re singing to a million, you will soon have an audience of a million.

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.

Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance

I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.

Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers.

A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.