Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.

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.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.

But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

Stirless, I stand at the window, and in the black bowl of the sky glows like a golden drop of honey the mellow moon

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.