Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water.

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 can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it.

A reverence for life needs to be developed, in which all things are sacred.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Work harder than anyone you know, and be lucky enough to be blessed with the genetics it takes.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Potential is the one power you always have.

Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.