Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

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!

Because I was conceived and born and I grew up. I'm breathing and my heart is beating and as much as it hurts ― as much searing, monumental pain it causes me ― I have to exist.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people watching it.

I am affirming that the casting couch for men exists in the modeling world

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

Peter finds the lost, the left-behind, the abused. Is that not why you are here? Did Peter not save you?

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I tend to think things are love and then look back and reevaluate.