A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.

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.

Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!

In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.