When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.

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.

Up from the ashes come the roses of success.

As I said before, I'm prepared to be prepared and I think that remains the same, you know there's no way to really know what it's going to feel like. I think for each individual it's different.

We must trust God with what we can't control.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

I know a lot of artists say, 'If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

The power of a dream is that it frees up your imagination to think about the best possible scenario for your life.

Thus shall you go to the stars.