The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.

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!

Where you are is merely a point along the path to where you are going.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.

I think it's better to have ideas.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.