Hear others, and you will be heard.Understand others, and you will be understood.Help others, and you be will be helped.Love others, and you will be loved.

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.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

Marriage is a science which has studied no one!

Live your life to care and your inner wealth to share.

I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

People power. It has no limits.