If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it.

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.

Remember no more your misery, listen to good music.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.