You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already yours if God has ordained it.

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.

He who is shallow cannot think deeply.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.

Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame.