It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

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!

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

In war, good guys always become bad guys.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.