Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

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.

Some people hate the rain, other appreciate it for the blooming flowers.

Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

Hunger steals the memory

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella

When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much.

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.