I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

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!

Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.

Writers don't have bad life days

Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never consent to become a slave.

I think there is a Paris inside us all.

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.