Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.

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.

We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the creator’s point of view

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

This is Shaun Mason activating security protocol Campbell. The bridge is out, the trees are coming, and I’m pretty sure my hand is evil. Now gimme some sugar, baby.

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.