Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.

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.

A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we're still trying to fit in as ethnics and we're still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians.

I wish I knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up"From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

On the way from mythology to logistics thought has lost the element of self-reflection and today machinery disables men even as it nurtures them.

I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.

I would never do anything just for spite.

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble.

One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.