The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars.

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 like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to himself." - The Sacred Echo

One should learn to be happy and content by himself, for everything else life is there to give a perfect lesson.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

There shouldn't be one Sal Khan - there should be 100,000 of them.

There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.

In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate.

When you ask a songwriter, "What's your favorite song?" he goes, "The next one."