When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.