Wind has no home in the world, and therefore wanders everywhere.Light has no home in the universe, and therefore returns to God.

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.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

You don't just read a book to find adventure. You read a book to find yourself.

I only play projects with weird interpretations of presidents.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.