No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

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.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.

I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: "That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa.

[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.