It can’t be done, ” they told the caterpillar. “It can, ” replied the butterfly.

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.

Cheer up everyone, " he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

One of the reasons I picked Pacifica was because, for a lot of classes and for your thesis, you could do artwork because of the Jungian slant of it all, and that really called to me.

gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary.

People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal.