A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge.

Some look at your strength and see an opportunity and some look at your weaknesses and see an opportunity .

Parents, teachers, and politicians should not be judged by their popularity.

Experience should have taught ye by now that denying me what I want only makes me more relentless.

Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of one's enemy; its wages to be sure of it.

We want his power more than his purity.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

Whatever I want to be, I'll discuss with the president-elect [Donald Trump], because that's the best way to do it, not to create more rumors.