The greater your wisdom, the shorter the distance to success.

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.

Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.

I've fallen in love a hundred times in my life! But never like you. So I wonder if I really fell or just tripped, you know?

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.

There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.

Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.