I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

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!

You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

I would love to do a romantic comedy - a good one.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

She's a surprise this old earth, one big surprise after another since before she separated from the moon who circles and circles like the mate of a shot goose.