If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

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 wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

Nothing good ever comes from worrying or sitting there feeling sorry for yourself... Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.

Catch a throatful from the fire vocal Ashing and molten glass like Eyjafjallajökull.

The thing about Buddhism is that it stresses attainment of something ineffable, that is where it differs from other religions in that it's more correct. We live in a world with promises of paradise.

I am a multi-dimensional woman who pushes boundaries and dares to be herself.

A real strategy is not bottom up because it deals with issues that require unexpected or unusual types action, especially of coordination among units.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!