History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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!

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality.

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

I try to be healthy. I train three days a week with a trainer. But I do like to eat, clearly. And I do eat dessert every day. If I cut that out, yes, I would lose weight.

Dave Grohl have said a lot of really nice things about me that I don't know I deserve but it's nice of him regardless.

Good givers are great getters.