Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.

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 believed that no man in this world deserves me until I met you.

Everything that flowers, dies too, but in its dying provides seed of a new beginning. - The Monk (Pg-50)

Peace starts with a prayer.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.