Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for 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 man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.

Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.

There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this tar, and you can't come back.

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

How do you create something unknown?