In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

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.

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.

The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Moshe Dayan, who said to Sammy Davis, Jr., That's funny, to me you only look half Jewish. Never got a dinner!

As I have always found, and often am forced to remember, to all things there is a beginning and an end.