Look around your competitors and learn from them.Look within for your talents and exploit them.Look back at your failures and learn from them.Look forward to your successes and reach for them.

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.

People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an")

Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."

They say hard work never hurt anybody but I figure why take the chance.

We all know people who have worse fates. What do I have to complain about for Christ's sake? I have a beautiful wife and kids, and all this music, kids are paying my bills.

Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.

Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.