Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

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 take you and pile high the memories. Death will break her claws on some I keep.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to be If I Grow Up

I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it.

Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up.

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.