If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

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!

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.

Imagine Martin Luther King saying, 'I have a dream ... But I don't know if the others will buy it.'

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.