You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.

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.

But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.

Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world.

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.