I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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!

A willing soul will keenly go the length, breadth and depth to fulfill the dream.

No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?, ’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.

We recognize and respect the right of either country to build a physical barrier or wall on any of its borders to stop the illegal movement of people, drugs, and weapons.

To keep always in the same place means to stagnate.

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.