If you hide honey in the dark, bees will still find it.

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.

You are the conductor of your own attitude! Nobody else can compose your thoughts for you.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Without civilized social graces, not only is life more difficult, but a positive first impression can be destroyed as fast as it is made.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons.

It was a cookie, not a crack pipe.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.