Run to brilliance. Sprint to excellence. Soar to transcendence.

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.

You're not who I thought you'd be, Cas." "No?" "Your so much better.

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

I've always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.