“When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.”

“Wealth wont make you happy. Power wont make you remarkable. Fame wont make you honorable. Education wont make you wise.”

“Bless the world with your mind, heal the world with your heart, lift the world with your soul; elevate the world with your life.”

“Dont mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Dont cry over the present; it has no sympathy for you; and dont weep over the future, it has no mercy on you.”

“In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.”

“The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.”

“A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.”

“Dont judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.”

“A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.”

“If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters.”

“Worrying is like a man's beard, if you don't do something about it... it will keep growing.”

“Luck appears when you are working towards it, not looking for it.”

“Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.”

“There was too much at stake for him not to attempt it! He had to win! And he had to win big!”

“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't hard to guess what he must have been like as a young man--for a man's character doesn't change a...”