The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.

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 novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they’ve done, and that taking a human life is wrong.

We cannot fully heal if we cannot experience gratitude on a daily basis.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer.

Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.

There's nothing like confidence.

Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not.

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.