Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do it is not perfect and they sigh for more and lose better things in struggling for them.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Most of us, most of the time, act within plays the lines of which were written long ago, the images of which require recognition, not invention.

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

The word "superstar" is an ilusion

I don't want to show kids that I am smoking.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.

You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.