Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.

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.

Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.

By equality, one once understood equality in the very same sense in which the Bible speaks of equality: that we are all equal, inasmuch as we are created in the image of God.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

That's another thing yo rappers are scared to bring new styles out. There's so many different ways we can be flowing but everybody chooses to flow the generic way.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.