A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.

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.

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

I've never seen one Star Trek in my whole life.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

I want to keep on doing 'Girls' Generation' forever. Please let me do so.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.