Go after your dreams confidently.Go after your aspirations positively.Go after your goals expectantly.

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.

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

I believe in the Biblical documents supporting Jesus. But I have no illusions about them. I think they contain many flaws, scribal errors, and so forth and they are only partial or fragmentary.

I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless it's kind of hard to get there.

I was shy, but I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report.I was reporting on books that I didn't want to read. I was inventing books that I didn't want to read.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.