If God charged us for every tear He shed for us, the world would be bankrupt.

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.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

My fans are really loud but they are great. I've never liked someone so much to go up and scream that loud.

Nobody says anything real today. Most of those girls have their songs written by other people. It annoys me, because 'eh oh eh oh ahh' is not a chorus...

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them