The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left behind the most happy memories.

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.

Innards came out crossed and complex, like a tumble of plus and minus signs--the equation of human life.

So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln for in him I saw the destroyer.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.

I do believe that our climate is changing. I don't agree that all the changes are necessarily due solely to human activity.

My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

The most wretched have yet hope.

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

I fed my ego, but not my soul.