Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.

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.

You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.

All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

There's an inverse relationship between my temper and my ability to control my accent. If you hear me say 'Fiddledeedee', run for the hills, because I'm getting ready to take out bystanders.

When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.