Be knowledgeable.Be logical.Be affable.Be trustable.

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.

I'm not senile, " I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.

You don’t have to be faster than a bullet, you just need to be smarter than the man holding the gun.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

One with God is a majority.

I think.' she said, 'that sometimes we don't feel the things that we are. But others can feel them.

She wished she were as inconsequential as the ghosts in her dreams.

If we can make America great again and if we can get everybody working and bettering their lot in life, then this becomes the great country that it once was, that it's ceased to be.

Speaking for myself, my first priority is to take care of my family. That's first and foremost.