The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

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.

Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it.

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.