If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.

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.

However much silence you behold, that amount of intellect will stop.

Eyes sparkling with blue open and stare a scalded soul at me.

There was only one reality, and Christ was Lord over all of it, or none.

Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

I don't know, I'm not in shape yet.