You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.

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.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Keep moving forward and do what you have to do for you.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry, and I'm not throwing away my shot.

Don't uncork what you can't contain