Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

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!

Results are always hidden in thoughts and actions.

As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.

...being "rather unique" is no more possible than being rather pregnant.

Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

There are three things a man must do before his life is done; Write two lines in APL, And make the buggers run.

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Losing's a great motivator.