It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful.

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!

It was everything I hoped it would be. I want you to know I would have waited another sixteen years to be able to feel that with you again.

It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell.

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I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love, but after a while you discover that youre really not. Real love is different.

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.