God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.

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.

Peace with God brings peace with each other.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

[Requesting her epitaph to read this way:] Excuse my dust.

Relationships are the core message of ecology.

Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives.