You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

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!

The problem Christians have isn’t our belief in what God could do, but on what God should do.

Stop being an adrenaline junkie who is waiting for the happy ending instead of seeing the happy being.

American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

I Don't Need the nicotene patch, Penny - I smoke cigarettes.

If Dracula would be happy there, so will your wine.

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.