Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

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.

Bad things bring out the real you

Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

I don't believe in dieting.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.