No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

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.

It is not the one that falls first that matters, but the one that gets up to help the other

The best artists know what to leave out.

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

Only one mountain can know the core of another mountain.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.

We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.