I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

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!

–We are all dying– she told me. –Even something of the immortal will die–“What?”–Meaning–

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

Taking a chance on a new author, can open your mind to new experiences.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

What people don't understand, they laugh at.

My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.