First, fear will mock you, then fear will taunt you, then fear will oppose you, and if you ignore it, only then will it flee from you.

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.

His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.

If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.

I do intelligent roles. I don't want to be labeled as doing silly movies. I'm more mature than kids my age because I'm constantly surrounded by adults.

I do think there is a strange idea that the media has that if you tell the public what you think, they can no longer think for themselves.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.