Don't face the day until you've faced God.

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!

By day, Ian was like the stars, there but not there. At night was when the beasts of grief came for her.

To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.