You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.

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.

Work with "what is" rather than "what if" and you will move towards "what can be.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent I had a pretty unhappy home life.

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.

I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.

I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Most of us have compromised with life. Those who fight for what they want will always thrill us.