One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.

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.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

Trust no Future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

The story fails but your faith in the importance of doing the story doesn't fail.

.... "death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

It's not just in politics that you can be a servant of the people, you can do it in so many other ways.

I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.