A candle is at its brightest in the dark.

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.

It's been a year and 3 months since we've kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a p

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.

I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

You might be a redneck if you watch cartoons long after your kids get bored.

Why can't you just get married in Las Vegas like normal Americans?

A related aspect of intelligent consciousness is delay of gratification: the wisdom to accurately predict whether delay rather than acting on impulse will yield greater benefit.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.