One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

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!

Gratitude is the secret to happiness.

Those who fixate on what could have been are bound to miss what already is.

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man

When we allow great minds to sleep, we allow great things to sleep!

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.