As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.

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.

If an eagle be imprisonedon the back of a coin, and the coin tossedinto the sky, the coin will spin, the coin will flutter, but the eagle will never fly.

Storytelling has been around since men and women were first created. Stories give meaning to life and provide people with history, information, and entertainment.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

Love is a feeling, the deepest and sweetest of all. It's incredibly strong and amazingly gentle at the very same time.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.