Excellence is the best ink with which to make your mark in the world.

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.

When one person succeeds, we win as a group of people. Support others dreams so we can all win.

if you are not a fan of great consumer service, then you are not a fan of business ultimately not making you a fan of money.

Nothing made you realize how much you’d been ignoring your heart, until someone came along and smacked it awake simply by existing.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always a high priority in whatever I was doing.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.