I am a child of God. I always carry that with me.

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!

Reading renews the mind.

When you stop growing you start dying.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

You can always find somebody to beat up. This goes back to the schoolyard. Most men would think, Don't chum with girls. But I chummed with girls.

It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.