A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.

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 some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

why shine as bright as the sun, when you can shine as bright as the moon and let the stars shine beside you

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

Anbody can make an easy deal, but only a true agent can sell a dog.

If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.