You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.

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.

Hope was a fool’s emotion.

There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.Or die trying

Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother to keep on turning the pages?

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today.

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

It's not what you say, but what you do that defines your individuality