If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.

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.

History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

You are not happy because you're healthy, you are healthy because you're happy

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

Amigo! Amigo!" (Calling out to the ITALLIAN Prime minister....)

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.