Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

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.

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

People come and go, in and out of each other’s lives like it’s nothing. So I don’t know how/why this should be a big deal.

I'm playing

It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

A bomb fell on Italy. It slid off!

You get what you work for, not what you wish for.

Brigan spun around to face the man, swearing with as much as exasperation and fury as Fire had ever heard anyone swear. The man scuttled away in alarm.

The human heart is a dark forest.