It is at the edge of excellence that genius awaits.

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.

There should always be an end game, or else all you are doing is practicing for an opportunity for which you have no idea of what it is or what it will even look like.

Every NASCAR driver watches Formula One in the morning they are well informed.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them.

I basically went out with any guy who asked me because hardly anyone ever asked me out.

A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

We exist solely because we have a body and a mind ? a mind that arises out of the body. If this were true, we would cease to exist after our body was gone.