The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

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.

The tiny match we've been fooling with just set off an explosion.

The only reason that the devil can read scripture, is that it was written with him in mind.

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

If my life had to be a song I would name it, 'Live every day like its your best day ever', because it pretty much is.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.