Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

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.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

You've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

The older you get, you can be less inspired.

Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

Remember: Marriage is the number one cause of divorce

In those places of doubt and even darkness I've realized that who I am has nothing to do with wins or losses, applause, or negative criticism. It has to do with whose I am.

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.