Stars cannot achieve their highest potential without the dark.

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.

Your calling is to serve people and humanity with this gift

...and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.

Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.