Sense will buy you more than dollars.

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.

I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently.

I look at the others, simpering courtiers and visiting dignitaries, all unsuspecting of what is to come. A merciful man should spare them, but I had mercy cut out of me at a young age.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

The highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.