Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

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 solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

I'm all right, " I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.

How could I be so immature to think you could replace the missing elements in me. How extremely lazy of me.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

I drink diet coke so I can eat regular cake.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.