Men like to borrow kisses because they know they will have to pay them back.

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.

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughing, it upsets my day.

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

If you're working on something that isn't very demanding, isn't very fulfilling, then you have all this energy to burn, and you can go crazy.

I have quite a broad taste in music.

If you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser. (Near)