Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

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.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.

what I remember is the silence in spite of the noise. In my head it might just as well have been a snowy day in the country.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.

Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.

Already, China has undermined U.S. foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan. We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.