A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.

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.

I was going down and hard. There are a few things in life that suck really badly. Loving someone who doesn't love you back is one of them.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

I think we're going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American people.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

Unless the Security Council is restored to its pre-eminent position as the sole source of legitimacy on the use of force, we are on a dangerous path to anarchy.

Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.