The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

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.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners.

Leadership is the ability to get individuals to work together for the common good and the best possible results while at the same time letting them know they did it themselves.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

I guess I am conscious of my weaknesses, and I think pacing is probably my biggest. I don't know if I think the clarity thing is actually a weakness. It was a stylistic choice.

I am locked into the mirror and there is no door out.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.