My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

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!

Words are not the answer. Only the feelings you as an individual get from them are.

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life.

I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.