Love that brings you sorrow is better than hate that brings you joy.

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.

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.

I've always been known as the fat kid from Stand By Me.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?