Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

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!

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

The better you putt, the bolder you play.

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.