Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

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!

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure -- one that leads me back home.

The disciplined soul hardly needs "Yoga" to control the body it temporarily resides in.

I teach our young men that respect is earned each day on the practice field, in the classroom, and how each young man lives his life.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

I am supposed to be where I go.

The secret of all failure is disobedience.

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.