Pain frees you from complacency.Tears free you from sorrow.Weaknesses free you from pride.Adversity frees from boredom.Challenges free you from monotony.

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.

one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it

Potential was a red herring to plot a life of wandering curiosity.

I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.

Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Just when I think the human race has been lost to the "what about me" people. I see the best we have to offer helping others.

I lead such a boring life.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.