Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you...

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!

Experience is a great teacher.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

The bonus for bankers fragilizes the system. Someone has the upside at the expense of others.

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.