The heart carries heavy loads when it is being trained to carry weighty blessings.

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.

It is insufficient to understand all, and thus to forgive all. If we were to truly understand, we would know there is nothing to forgive.

A brief life burns brightly.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.

I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

What interests me is the unforeseeable.