Truth has the biggest mouth in the universe, wisdom has the largest ears, love has the strongest hands, and faith has the ablest feet.

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.

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country, but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

I'm not ready to die. Period. To begin with, I cannot imagine a future without me in it. Can't do it.