Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one.

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.

Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.