Seeds you plant today determine the harvest you reap tomorrow.

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.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is thecapacity to listen.

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling up anyway.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you. But no one does.

When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

I think there is a big question in how much music a film needs - a lot of films are overloaded for my taste, so that the story can't carry its own weight.