Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

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!

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

Service to others in their time of need is a privilege and an honor.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

There are all too many who, on account of their notorious ineptitude, thrive better in a rationalist system than in freedom. Freedom is one of those difficult things.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

I love you baby goodnight. There goes my life

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.