Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.

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.

We really need to find a cure for stupidity, and fast! I've heard it's contagious...No wonder why there's so many of them.

Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

If you can't see the gift in having a child with autism, you're focusing too much on the autism and not enough on the child.