There is no gem like virtue, no wealth like happiness, no treasure like faith, and no jewel like love.

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.

He who has a question will always be able to find the answer.

Be cheerful and hopeful.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

As for hot songs...there are five in Dhoom 3, and I hope they are all hot!

My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.