Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

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.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

If you can explain, then it's not the Dream. The dream can never be put into words, it can only be felt through the heart

If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.