Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

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.

if you like Black colour, perhaps you're emotional

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

A language is everything you do.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.