When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.

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.

Be still and know that I am God

Discover how little you know about the people you know.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Would you truly sleep with strangers?" "I don't know, I haven't met the strangers yet.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.

Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.