A lion's strength does not lie in its roar.

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.

The only thing that prevents us from being happy is thinking.

Books, I found, had the power to make timestand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Students judge how well they might do in a chemistry course from knowing how peers, who performed comparably to them in physics, fared in chemistry

There's a quote that says, 'If you know yourself and you know your opponent, you shouldn't fear the results of 100 battles.' Just really being prepared gives you a lot of confidence.

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.