The sun stands out not because it merely shines, but because it shines on everyone.

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.

Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath, which will someday come to light.

If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

I found when I was a child that if I put the hurt into words, it would go.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

I confirm that and Donald Trump now confirms that President Barack Obama is a legitimately elected president of the United States].

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

He worships God who knows him.