Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine.

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.

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Boston and shut it, Terrance.” And then I hung up on him.

They say opposites attract. Nobody ever said opposites live happily ever after.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Small leisure have the poor for grief.

The nuclear arms race has no military purpose. Wars cannot be fought with nuclear weapons. Their existence only adds to our perils.

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.