The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart.

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.

And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.

If you're younger, you shouldn't be spending all your cash at a bar.

Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

We are this divine energy. It's not something we have to attain. We just have to realize it, to be present to it.

Drama sells more than the truth.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.