Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.

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.

My reasons to liveWere my reasons to dieBut at least they were mineNow I've freedom unboundCut the laces of life

Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.

The point of being in a band, for instance, isn't to get big; it's about enjoying playing shows.

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part.

It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Our real teacher has been and still is the embryo, who is, incidentally, the only teacher who is always right.