Mind-power takes you to the mountaintop. Heart-power takes you the stars. Soul-power takes you to the edge of 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 you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren’t only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity!

He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.

Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness.

Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.