Only a fool lights a fire and tries to hide at the same time.

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 natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Most recently I read Michael Lewis "Boomerang." The other guy I love is Bill Bryson.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

If you don't like my announcing, you don't like me.

It is when we lose control that we repress the emotions, not when we are in control.

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.