I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

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!

Holy mother of rectangles.

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.

Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.