Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.

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!

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

If you are always persuasive, you would be able to make new friends in society.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.