The most valuable things in your life are always the things that money cannot buy.

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.

If you don’t believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

And plenty makes us poor.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

Dating is about grand romantic gestures that mean little over the long term. Marriage is about small acts of kindness that bond you over a lifetime.

I cannot change another person. I let others be who they are, and I simply love who I am.

You could do with losing a little bit of weight.

The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country.