Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.

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.

Turn your diodes this way and pulse...

I don't trust humans that always go out to take calls, the way i don't trust humans that hang around bars and refuse to drink.

Kindness is virtue itself.

Giving is what fuels us. Giving is our future.

Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.