You are one thought away from intelligence, one word away from kindness, one deed away from excellence, one step away from brilliance, and one second away from transcendence.

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.

Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.