You are not honored for the fruit you pick, but for the trees you plant.

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 realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.

I grew up in a loving household that taught me how to respect others and love God.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.