I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

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!

What else is a child, but hope? Hope for the future, hope for one's own salvation, hope for a tomorrow that shines as bright and warm as the best yesterday you can remember.

Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.

The great fish eat the small.

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.