When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.

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.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

You can always be a little bit better.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

The song tells me what to play.

I used to hate England because they ruled my country but I am happy they gave us the game of cricket, which they can't play very well, and the English language, which I can't speak very well.

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.