Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

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.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

I cry as the laughter inside me drowns and descends into the water with the ghosts of our union.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Florida feels we owe a great debt to our neighboring states.

They are not said to be husband and wife, who merely sit together. Rather they alone are called husband and wife, who have one soul in two bodies.

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches.

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.