A flower’s beauty is birthed in a seed’s ugly struggles.

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.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.

Man must conquer some more territories and to expand the influence of the kingdom to a higher horizon

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

I think that the older you get, the more you become your true, essential self. You find the things that make you happy. You whittle away the parts of yourself that mean less to you.

You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.