If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.

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.

...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.