Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.

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've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love!

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.