The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

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.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.