Only what is below you tries to pull you down.

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.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Love is a sacrificial item

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.

I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?

The things that matter most in this world are those that carry no price tag, for they can neither be bought nor sold at any price.

I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.