Your inner light is your inner power.

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.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived.

It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.

It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

Running strengthens self-motivation.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

I will jump headfirst from a helicopter in Luneta if Estrada gets removed from power.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'