When life’s great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.

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.

For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

Running removes us briefly from the fragmentation and depersonalization of the digital world

Elvis, you're still King.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war.

It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.

It's getting harder just to feel alive.

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow