Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.

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.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

I'm so against surgery. I can tell you today and I can tell you for sure I will never do anything to my face. Nothing. The age I am? That's it.

... every human being is an unprecedented miracle.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

I chose to stay with tennis and they didn't understand that at the school.

I like to follow my own muse.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.