If you are tired of walking to your destiny, sprint.

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.

Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

If you make people think they're thinking they'll like you, but if you make people actually think, then watch out, you're not going to be popular.

The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.