When love writes a letter, joy is its ink.

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.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it."STATE OF WONDER

The universe is vast because, it has accepted everything. Every entity is supplement to the other.

I said, "It really didn't feel like a choice. Where else is there to go?

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

Character is the plot in many ways

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.

You can't have Christ without the Church.

A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.