Scholars love knowledge.Philosophers love wisdom.The most knowledgeable become professors.The most wise become sages.

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.

The two things that truly belong to ourselves are our thoughts and actions.

Forever's just a word.

Reprogram your life and mind-set by replacing the bad with the positive, the weakness with the strength.

[Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

A visionary thrives under all conditions.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.