If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

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!

All souls have a body.

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the basin of one of our greatest rivers.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

It's a privilege to be in such a great category of people and... I don't believe in God, so I'd like to thank dogs. Dogs have given me everything.