By standing alone, you prove your courage.By standing with others, you prove your love.By standing with truth, you prove your virtue.By standing with God, you prove your faith.

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.

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.