One who protects himself from negative thoughts protects himself from negative outcomes.

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.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect

Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.

The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.

Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Please feel free to take this personally.

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.