Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

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.

The blank page is the great equalizer and grand opportunity for continued learning and growth.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

Both of my parents have been actors there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.

A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.

BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.