If you want the world to know how truly beautiful you are, love everyone.

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.

don't you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

You've ruined me, baby. I'm yours...you've got me under your spell.

...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.