Before letting someone hold your heart in their hands, make sure their hands are clean.

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.

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.