A caterpillar knows it's a butterfly, even if the whole world tries to convince it that it's just a worm.

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.

We're bound by our desire to be right.

Digest your experiences well and let this nourish the body of your life.

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

The more you do, the more you can do.

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.