One does not become strong lifting feathers.

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.

Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.

Trust was now a four-letter word.

The blessings of God will complicate your life, but unlike sin, they will complicate your life in the way it should be complicated.

We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

Nothing gets my hackles up like being told I can't do something.

I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.