No matter how low the sun sets, the time is coming when it will surely rise.

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.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] — He wants us to be good and kind.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

Coming into Pacifica I knew that I wanted whatever I was going to learn there, I knew I wanted to integrate that into my art no matter what.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.