Hope is a better friend than despair.

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.

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy...

I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.