If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.

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 can recreate your world, do not give up until people call you a champion.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.

At Twitter, mobile is in our DNA ... For us, it's all about mobile, and it always has been.

Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.

Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!

Banning refugees from fleeing west Africa is like shuttering up the windows while a house burns down.

Almost no one sings like Elvis Presley any more.

You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.