You cannot drown a fish in the ocean, no matter how deep you sink 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.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.

All I know is that the Internet will transform the world.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

I've nearly walked off very big films before, and I would, because I don't want that in my life. I want to enjoy the work I do.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera