It takes more than one individual to make a team.

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.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

I think ring rust is an excuse people use when they don't box well.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

Only the journey matters.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Of course, this person is to have the trust of the American people, then he or she would not only have the wish but also the supported political will to implement all these agreements.