The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

You can think whatever you want, say whatever you want, and do whatever you want, as long as you are willing to face the consequences.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

Accepting that we have weaknesses becomes a strength.

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Enjoy it any way you can.

Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

Music I do just for me.

A story is a burden which must be carried with as much care as we carry a sleeping child

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!