A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.

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 continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you’ll stay a 3rd class citizen.You’re better than that.

She was so wound up that she reacted before she thought twice about it and stabbed him. "Damnit" he said between clenched teeth. His fingers tightyened around her wrist. "Stop doing that.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

NO NO NO!! FIVE! FIVE!

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.