You learn more from your tears than your smiles.

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 know how it’s to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others.

Such elderly people were in the habit of saying that he simply had no will-power

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…) A good novel editor is invisible.

We reckon hours and minutes to be dollars and cents.