You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet.

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.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.