If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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!

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

Becoming obsessed with what people think is the quickest way to forget about what God thinks.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

I'm not impressed with presidents. I have met a few, but I'm not impressed with them.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.