An eagle can mock a lion only because of its wings.

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.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have promised, not just instruction but pleasure.

But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.