All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

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!

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

The written revelation of God is in the world, but men heed it not. Instead, they look for knowledge where it is not to be found.

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I always do big birthday things. In three years, I'm 70. I'm going to do something outrageous. In America, everyone's always hiding their age.

I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.