Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

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!

Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.

Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)

We and future generations should never forget them, Always remember them.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

If there was no Bible, it would be no matter whether you could read or not. Reading other books would do you no good.

My writing is consistently influenced by everything I watched and listened to growing up, so it's just this crazy collage of everything.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

Maybe there would be a Tinker city someday, too. They would buy up all of the colored dye, and everyone else in the world would ave to wear brown.' -Mat