Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to 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.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?

Good God! how should the mitral valves prevent the regurgitation of air and not of blood?

in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder

I've never had any rights in this country and I'm happy to renounce any I'm supposed to have. That way they can't bother me.

It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Hot tea," he said, holding the cups. "It's just wrong.

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.