Your private thoughts give birth to your public acts.

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.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.  This book I had again and again perused with delight.

If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

It's nice to be important but it's even more important to be nice. I grew up in a world where there were a lot of big physical guys...and woman so it's always important to be nice to me.

You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.

I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window.

Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.

I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred.

Everything in your life can change except ONE: your passion

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.