It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one.

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.

There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

It would be cool for someone to ask me about some of the structural choices I make with my albums.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.