A living fool is worth less than a dead hero.

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.

Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.

I know the nature of women When you want to they don't want to And when you don't want to they desire exceedingly.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.

It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.