When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.

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 think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

So many people have so many problems. When you think that health is wealth, you're so grateful just to be normal, more or less. Aren't you?

Let's not bequeath the pop charts to just children.

I don't know [whether] if I didn't get paid, or my career didn't keep going where it goes, if I would keep doing music.

It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.

When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.

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.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.