A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

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.

Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.

Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken - errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs.