It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

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!

Moments of prayer intruded on by sloth cannot be made up. We may get experience, but we cannot get back the rich freshness and strength which were wrapped up in those moments.

I live my life openly and freely every day anyway, and do what I want to do, but I don't take any great risks.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

In death as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.

If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

I did Vibe, and I felt old and paternal. I've got ties older than people in that audience. I had a talk with myself. I said, You've got to deal with this better.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.