When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.

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.

Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any one thing.

The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.

Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.