Passion gives you what you want, lust gives you what you desire, but only love gives you what you need.

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, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.

I do a lot of ceramics.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.