Feeding a lion will never make him your friend.

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 always wondered why God was supposed to be a father, " she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

She would never let anyone interfere with her right to use her mind.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same time.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.