Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.

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.

When you’re being celebrated and flying high, don’t allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is.

When you love something or someone it transforms that thing or person. When you allow yourself to be loved, it transforms you.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Oh, gods, you’re mated! I really hope it’s to Aimee. (Bride) Thankfully so. Otherwise I’d have had to kill me some ho and then beat Fang senseless. (Aimee)

The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.