Your darkest fears are the veil between you and your brightest rewards.

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've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.

Do you really enjoy living a life that's so hateful? 'Cause there's a hole where your soul should be, you're losing control of it, and it's really distasteful.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

Teaching is a passionate profession.

We are responsible for protecting Tessa!

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

My goal before I die is to get all of my thoughts out.

I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.