Step by step a mountain is conquered.

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.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

One with the law is a majority.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Revolution begins with one step

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.