Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.

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!

I wish my nose would blow me for once.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.

Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.