At our best, we are all teachers

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!

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

I think everyone's a geek in some way.

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

When you put on the glasses in a 3-D movie they just kind of sit there and you forget about them.

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.