Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

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.

What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

All pain, pleasure and self-limitation either originate in theconscious mind or is accepted uncritically from an outside source.

Everywhere my sons and I go, we're telling people the good news about Jesus, blowing duck calls, and making people, happy, happy– then down the road we go.

Death has a life which kills everybody's life

That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

I think that things happen for a reason.

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.