A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.

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.

Don’t try to silence other people’s genius because you’re too deaf to hear your own.

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.

Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy."

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together.

The public has a right to art ... Art is for everybody.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.