A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.

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.

Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.

Non-violence is not a passive idea. It is ethical activism at its political best

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.