Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

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.

Homes are built on the foundation of wisdomand understanding.

Do not starve your soul while you indulge your body. That is dressing the shadow.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

[Wilhelm] Bruckner was one of [Adolf] Hitler's adjutants, very close to him and he'd been in the party probably since day one. Personally neither of us could stand him.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out of the bank until I saw how Citi Bank responded to Occupy Wall Street.

Repentance is like antiseptic. You pour antiseptic onto a wound and, at first, it stings. Then it heals.