One who has been stung by a spider should not go out and kill bees.

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.

Line of control must be renamed as garden of love and the barbed wire fencing should be replaced by the garden of flowers.

No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

When we give our heartbreak to God, he fashions it into a softer and even more loving heart."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Just as dumb creatures are snared by food, human beings would not be caught unless they had a nibble of hope.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.