I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.

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!

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and show Myself to him.

Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.

If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.

Make no a complete sentence.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

There is right and there is wrong, I have NEVER been wrong.

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person.