In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

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!

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

How can you be dour when you have a tiny duck?

Every time something pops in my head, I think twice about it and I do it anyway.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

I always love China, especially the old China.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.