My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she’ll end up taking over.

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.

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.

Everything is energy.

Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.

the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

What's in the past is in the past... let it be, let it be. We all grow up.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.