Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

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.

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.

Why do people only understand what they want to......instead of what they could or should understand?

Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet

The Church, like her head, has a glory, but it is concealed from carnal eyes, for the time of her breaking forth in all her splendour is not yet come.

The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Faith - seeing your husband as Jesus sees him.

Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.