The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish.

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.

Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.

Creativity abides no absolutes.

The "C" students run the world.

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.

I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.