If you waste time watering a fruitless tree, fruitful ones may die of thirst.

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 it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

Let us be a little humble let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R. Ewing!

...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

Women tell us that they do feel patronized. They do feel like they don't have the time and the space to have their questions answered.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.