If a ship is strong, the ocean's tides do not trouble 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.

When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love

The nature of the universe probably depends heavily on who is the actual protagonist. Lately I've been suspecting it's one of my cats.

We've all loved someone way too freakin' much.

Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow body­builders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world.

I probably have the crappiest tattoo -- not only in country music -- but maybe the world.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.