Use the pebbles of failure to build yourself a bridge to success.

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.

Joy come and go like pleasant breeze. It's the miseries that stick in you like thorns - until you realize that it's all your doing.

I sometimes think if I did not write I would be a madwoman. Now I am a sane woman with a lot of mad pages.

Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

We receive from God, then we give to others.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.