What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood.

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.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

I’m half crazy but I know the Devil real. I should know, I signed a record deal.

God requires to be represented by a fiery Church... two things are intolerable to Him-insincerity and lukewarmness.

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.