Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you shade tomorrow.

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.

Maktub" (It is written.)

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

Machines are non living things, but they still can absorb human attitudes.

if you did not make a mistake, then you have not try anything new, then you did not live at all.

There's nothing unmanly about surrender. It takes a brave man to give in.

If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union.

Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them.