One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow.

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.

Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.

The future is just wasted on some people.

In the midst of the personified impersonal world, smiles dramatically connect humans.

You begin with other people's memories and end up with your own.

I just write mechanical things.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind.

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Folklore is the boiled-down juice, or pot-likker, of human living.