When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

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.

You are where your brain is but not where a front-page headline is.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

Sure, I'm an optimistic, joyous person, but I'm also afraid and insecure.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.