Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after.

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.

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

Life is full of uncertainties. Ye must grasp the moment.

The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?

I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!

Live each day like your last...one day you'll be right.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.