A sword can only pierce the body, but love can pierce the soul.

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.

News is the first rough draft of history.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

To Zen, time and eternity are one.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

Syria will remain a hotbed of terrorism as long as the civil war, aided and abetted by the Iranians and the Russians, continue.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

The way we look at it, everything is a sound.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.