Great wildernesses lead you to great Promised Lands.

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.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

You have no control over your growth or development. But you have a control on the direction of your growth and development! Go, grow towards impact directions!

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

Should have dogs before they have kids. Everybody.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away by rhetoric?