The great are inspired. The extraordinary inspire.

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 more we surrender to what cannot be, the better we control what can be.

I’d seen a thousand lifetimes come and go, but had never truly lived.

To fulfil destiny is to bring the whole earth under the principles of God’s kingdom

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

Reforms come from the bottom. No man with four aces requests a new deal.

I got sued more times than Martha Stewart.

There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds there comes no help.