The best way to predict your success is to work for it.

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.

To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Can you burn me up with holy water? Poke me to death with your crucifix? Pelt me with communion wafers?

We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.