If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

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 choice is yours. Don't let your pronouncements destroy your destiny rather let them build your future up!

This seemed like one of those make-it-or-break-it moments where you have to consciously choose to do the right thing. Or be bad.

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

I must admit that it seems like my mind really reconstructs some things, and in a very - I just know that it seems like some things are not as I remembered them when I do some investigation.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.