To have a rich mind is better than to have a rich bank account.

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.

I'd like to lose enough weight so that my bones creaked louder than the floor

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself.

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angeles.

If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get.

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.