Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.

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.

If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

I think it is good that fashion is a challenge because when something is a challenge, you want to do it better.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

The one close to me now; even my own body--these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.