Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.

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.

Once a minute passes it can never be reclaimed.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

People learn from who we are, rather than what we say, and to believe otherwise is a disease of the mind.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.

Attachment is the root of all suffering.