A clean pond is more useful than a dirty ocean.

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.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

Kittens play with yarn, they bat it around. What they're really doing is saying, "I can't knit, get this away from me!"

I'm not comfortable being that outgoing guy. That's not me. I never used to talk to anybody.