Today's tears are an investment into tomorrow's smiles.

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 is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.

Lots of little good things make you happier than a handful of big things.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now

We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.

When you recognize good writing and you're lucky enough to get it, like with Lost, that's what I follow.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.