You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.

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.

Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

Like the fragrance of a flower, our actions reveal the beauty of your life.

A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.

The United States, as all you know, did not come to Iraq for oil, not to occupy. We came here only to help.

I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.