The greatest among you are those with the greatest love.The richest among you are those with the most joy.

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.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Be master of your destiny.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

The world is gonna try to clean you up, what the f**k you gonna do about it? You're gonna say, "I wanna stay ugly".

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

I hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there's no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

Back then all I cared about was rhyming and making beats. That was my trade, my hobby.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.