One who trusts God at all costs will be rewarded at all costs.

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.

The act of underlining always contains an element of self-recognition.

Even when our Life is Full of Problems there will always be a Little bit sunshine of Happiness.

Safety tip. When you see smoke run, never wait for fire.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

Virtually everything is dangerous if you are afraid.