If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.

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.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Be careful of fake faces, the most honest the most evil.

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

Even though I had been broken, I was strong enough to love again someday.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.