You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.

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.

Some people are born to make a Point... And some to make money... No COMPARATIVE analogy exists

Give us this day our daily bread.

Men only become friends by community of pleasures.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

The trouble with plays these days is that they're too easy to understand.

My life is my statement and I try to be true to myself and thusly to other people. Whatever my failings are, they are human and I try to perfect it each day.