Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.

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 currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

Life can sometime be very hard for us and we feel that as if we are drowning in our problems. when we feel this way we only need to look up and see that there is a hand reaching out to save us.

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Testimony is to know and to feel, Conversion is to do and to become.

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.