Where others only see bricks, train your eyes to see a palace.

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.

Wisdom comes with winters

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

People do complain about the way I act on stage... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

Too many voters are already bought -- not by corporate campaign donors, but by the government itself.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Now everyone is prouder and poorer

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.