My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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!

Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare

We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

I am the dust and dirt from which this earth grows.

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

School's-out-for-summer!!

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.