Loud critics are silenced by loud success.

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.

As when we can recall so vividlyWe almost touch, Or think of all the gestures that we failedTo make.

We soon fall asleep in each other’s arms, knowing to myself that I captured her, like a prisoner in a cage.

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.

The command of custome is great.

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.