Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.

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.

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

Our contradictions are never so to ourselves.

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

Our feelings about how we're feeling are notoriously unreliable.

As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.