Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

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.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

Love is something that u feel inside that others can not.

No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

There's an element of trust that you don't find with people nowadays.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

Food! Oh my god, I love food. Sugar makes me come alive.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

President Trump has been very public about the fact that Aleppo is a humanitarian crisis that's been all but ignored by America for far long.

The music we play is kind of hard to explain. It's music that we really feel.

Tone is everything in TV.