A star on its worst day shines brighter than the moon on its best day.

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.

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?”“Oh no, Ron, ” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

Does it look like I have stupid written across my forehead

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

Shouldnt we be the light brigades rather than the bandwagon?

It's hard to judge literary merit.

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career.

Every person's every action has an effect.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.