Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Utopia exists only in one's childhood life.

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

I've been telling people I'm in the best shape of my life, I've been training unbelievably hard.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

I still don't get golf.

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility