Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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!

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.

Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

A heart isn't some revolving door where a bunch of people can go in and out.

But maybe as I get older, I begin to see beauty where I least expected it before.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.

A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice

If you have the wherewithal to have a lot of money, have it.