An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.

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.

Thoughts can be easily expressed by words but feelings are very hard to express by words.

Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.