A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

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!

If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world.

Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.

Leave the gun, take the cannoli--Clemenza to Rocco in the Godfather (1972)

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.

I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.