Count your smiles, not your frowns.

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.

Never be fooled that you are not number one, they got it wrong, because you beat a bunch of sperms to be alive.

The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.