An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.

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.

What you expect, it will happen.

By today’s standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

I trust the flow of life.

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

A zen couch potato is a person who contemplates the nature of televised existence.