You will never reach the stars without courage to lose sight of the ground.

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.

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

I am a work in progress.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

The joy late coming late departs.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.

Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.