Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

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!

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.

I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?