While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.

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.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

half truths equal whole lies

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers the more they did for us.

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Tequila? It's not even a drink. It's a way for having the cops around without using a phone.

He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'.

Somewhere along the line, I conditioned myself to be a quick thinker. I take a step back and try to assess the situation, then make the best decision possible at the moment.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity.

Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.