Spend time with people who enrich your mind, nourish your heart, and illuminate your soul.

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 need to get out of the nest if you ever want to fly.

No power in the 'verse can stop me!

Flashlight beams danced crazily

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.

In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic!

I am very much in favor of tax cuts.

Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.