Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.

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.

Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

So-called 'sustainable development' is meaningless drivel.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.