Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.

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.

The spirit calls, I must surrender.

Optimism is life with sprinkles on top.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

I want girls to have an imprint of self-love firmly in place at a young age.

A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.