Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow.

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.

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s

There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.

A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.

The words you speak are powerful. Especially the words you speak to yourself.