A diligent ant is more useful than a lazy cow.

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.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.

My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus.

God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.