If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

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.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.

What they have done over the centuries is evolve the fine use of sexual power.

We've got to stop thinking everybody who is Muslim is a terrorist.

I think kids will read more good books than we can possibly produce.

The shamans are forever yacking about their snake oil miracles. I prefer the real McCoy, a pregnant woman.

Poets tell many lies.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.