My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

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!

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance.

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

You think the Welsh are friendly, but the Irish are fabulous.

You dont have a marriage problem, you have a sin problem.

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.

[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.