You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.

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 question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Death is the end of the poetry we call life.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue. Of we are ashamed of ourselves, how the hell can we expect the rest of the world not to be ashamed of us?

A points-based system like Australia has zero Islamic racial immigration.

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.