If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.

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!

Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.

Love is most powerfulLove is most resourcefulLove is most wonderfulLove is most blissful.

I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.

We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.

We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us more free?

Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.

The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.