Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

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!

They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.

Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.

You're a romantic. What's romantic about a guy wanting to go somewhere and actually getting there?

A gust of wind set the leaves of grass to dancing and celebrated the grass's song before it died.

Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Conquer all your fears and you'll be amazed at how awesome your life can become.

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.