If you try to hide a star behind a dark veil, it will still shine through 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.

A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.

...because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.

Art does not explain.

Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.