Perpetual optimism is good for the mind.Perpetual hope is good for the heart.Perpetual faith is good for the heart.

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.

Be kind. Be happy. Be free.

Behind every successful woman, there's a big prick.

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

There is no heat of affection but is joyned with some idlenesse of brain, says the Spaniard.

Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Actors were the first people to accept me.

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.