Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

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 felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that -- using logic as a weapon.

If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people.

See not the face..but only the eyes, of the poker face.

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

I don't know a high C from a low C.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.