A smile is the most affordable way of giving someone an expensive gift.

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.

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

I used to put that I studied with Stella Adler on my resume. I never met Stella Adler. But if you told a casting director you studied with Stella Adler all the sudden they'd let you in the door.

That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.

It is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.

Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.