Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities.

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 highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Drunk people run stop signs, high people wait for them to turn green

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.