Love that hurts is better than hate that tickles.

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.

Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace!

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.

There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.

I make up different names for my cat all the time - Flapjack, Bowtie, Popcorn. But he's really, "Hey you, cat."

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul