Teachers are in your life to guide you.Friends are in your life to support you.Parents are in your life to bless you.Enemies are in your life to strengthen you.

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.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Be the solution!

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

Knowing you’re worthless doesn’t give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.