Great sages began as great students.

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.

Think that today is the best day of your life and, with love and kindness, change yourself to begin the first day of the rest of your existing life.

There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard.

You have eternity to experience your awakened self. So why not enjoy the dream while you’re in it, even if it is limited?

To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.

There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

The American system of political spending is so unregulated that it might make Adam Smith rethink free markets.

Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.

Money is a great dignifier.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.