It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.

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.

When passion rises to its full expression, it touches the soul and lifts the spirit.

Pride goes before destruction.

Success, like fashion, is a fickle companion and can leave one in the wink of an eye.

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.

I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.

All my friends are super normal.

The only way to find out what you know is to call upon yourself to know it.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

There's always someone bigger and badder than yourself