A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

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.

When the sun shall be folded up

Time will explain.

Never let the future disturb you - you will meet it with the same weapons of reason and mind that, today, guard you against the present...

Whatever things ye desire when ye pray believe that you receive them and ye shall have them.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.