Today is tomorrow’s stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.

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.

Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist.

Often the best advice is not to seek advice.

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful.

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.

If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.

I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

Look for the blessing in all situations.

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.