Truth is the highest knowledge.Faith is the highest courage.Reason is the highest wisdom.Love is the highest virtue.

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.

If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

When America doesn't act, bad things happen

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

I'm not really a morning person.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.