Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.

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.

I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

I am a believer, I am believer that we shape and create the life that we choose, and I believe that the tool that we have to do that, is our mind.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.

Sci-fi and fantasy used to be a TV staple throughout my childhood. Then it just stopped dead. It was seen as culty, a minority interest.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

What is forever? God, I don't know. Hope, I guess. That's a difficult question.

I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job.

We are the only country who is an ally of the United States that never asked for American soldiers.