A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles.

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.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk

It is better to be kind than be impolite.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.