Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.

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.

Ah, well, when you explain it like that, it seems obvious, " said Mudge. "Of course, it always seems obvious once it's been explained.

Adversity is the hidden treasures of life.

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.