Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

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.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind

You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

I think honestly that Michael [Gove] came to this decision[Prime Minister candidate] very late, that he needed to step up.

My dad told me this: You get out of it what you put into it. If you put in effort and log your time, you'll get the results.

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.