A bird must have faith in its wings in order to fly.

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.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!''Valdez who?

Time is eternity begun.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.