An archer must never blame a target for missing 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.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

I was already set for life when I met her.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.