Trials are part of the adventure to greatness.

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.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

There's something about [pain] that excites me. If I'm feeling really awful about something, it's because I haven't experienced it before. There's something I need to learn from it.