I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

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!

Not only can you decide to be great, you also have the power to determine the height of your greatness.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Once you shift your thoughts for the better, your world begins to shift with them.

I had been there before

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

If I lost your respect...I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

I'm washing lettuce. Soon, I'll be on fries. In a few years, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.