Understanding is important for studying, knowledge is important for teaching, and wisdom is important for living.

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.

We need more inclusion, partnerships over partisanships in politics to solve man-made problems to be better off and in order to change the world

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door.

You are the capital U in Unhelpful.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

In Britain, girls seem to be either bright or attractive. In America, that's not the case. They're both.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals

Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her; if you play with somebody else, she fights with you.

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.