If you debate the wise, no matter how poor, they will hearken to wisdom.If you debate the foolish, no matter how rich, they will mock wisdom.

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.

And, suddenly, as if her head cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they're only in my own mind, she thought, they're there and worth fighting for.

At thirty either you are perfect or nothing.

She can push me away all she wants, she can burn me with those eyes, but right now, I’m not going anywhere.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

Music and the music business are two different things.

People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.