Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.

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!

To be as vehement as he is is to be almost non-committal.

When your in pain you slowly killing your self but when your happy you are repairing the pain that slowly killing you

I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

I'm having fun and I'm not even trying to do much. Everything is coming together.

I'm thirty-six years old. I'm just getting started!

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.