I did what I knew.. when I knew better, I did better

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 only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

Over a period of time, I think the popular will in Iran will prevail.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

If no words come, you can always give him the finger.

If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.