Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

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!

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.

The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.