Trust unites, fear divides, mercy heals, and love conquers.

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.

There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to.

Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.