Exercise your faith and you exorcise your fears.

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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.