Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees.

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 was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.

It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

The long experiment with professional politicians and professional government is over, and it failed.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.