The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.

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 wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection

We have brilliance in the world. What the world needs is your heart.

They think they are invincible. But, the truth is, Nova––gods fall just as hard as mortals. The only difference is... gods do not see the fall coming until it is too late.

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

Thousands of Americans have been killed by illegal immigrants.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

How could you know what it feels like to fight the hounds of hell?