Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

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!

We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.

Lower prices are not service; they're just lower prices.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'