Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

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.

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true.

At first there was nothingthen nothing turned itself inside-out and became something