Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

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.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.

Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.