The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.

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.

My story begins with a question.

Follow his intuition is the art of being guided by the Angel of the heart

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.

Service is taking action to create value for someone else.

I can't live off the ego.

God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.