My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.

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.

Her vulnerability is open, but she’s safe within it.

If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.

How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

It’s foolish to fear what we’ve yet to see and know.

We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.