Welcome the righteous, avoid the wicked, and yet open both arms to the repentant.Whoever receives them receives God.

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 mind is so powerful that is can suddenly grow wings of imagination and fly in the open sky.

You’ve got one life

I don't.""Don't what?" She asked, somewhat puzzled."I don't know many things. The only thing I know is that I know nothing.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.