Seeds pour out oil when pressed.Grapes pour out wine when squeezed.Herbs pour out medicine when pounded.Flowers pour out perfume when crushed.The gifted pour out excellence when tested.

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 microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.