Ain't nothin' to it, but to 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!

It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.

People enjoy doing what they do best.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

Working with Ava [ DuVernay] and Oprah [Winfrey], they're just so intimate. I feel like we're really family at this point.

I am a United States citizen and I vote.

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.