Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.

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.

When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

I've been wrestling for 15 years so my body hurts.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Beautiful, see the cloud, the cloud appear. Beautiful, see the rain, the rain draw near.

Giving is the secret of abundance.