Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest.

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.

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Getting out of one car and getting into another

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

Enjoy the journey as much as the destination.

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)