A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence.

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.

She loves me like the star loves the sky.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.

If i get a second chance to live, i'll rise much higher than i ever dream

Bliss happens when we release all resistance to the moment.

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

I don't know if I could, like, see a face and know what the face of beauty looks like, but after I've seen it I know if I've felt like it was beauty.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."