If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe.

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 today you don't have time for those who gave all their time for you yesterday then tomorrow they will not have time to give to you who has no time today

Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and freeWhether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a treeOr rolled in the arms of some nymph of the seaWhich is where we would all like to be, man!

An ever-growing, ever-constant relationship with God makes us certain of what we believe and enables us to run with endurance.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.

I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers that be vanquish themselves and return in three to five years to sift through the remains.

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.