Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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!

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

Finding the hidden dimensions of your life is the way to fulfill your deepest hunger.

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.

We're mostly macrobiotic, but sometimes I take the family out for a pizza.

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

Hatred is one long wait.

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.